Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Francis Giannaros <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 16:06, you wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:12:31PM +0000, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> > On Friday 03 November 2006 16:29, Greg KH wrote:
> > > That's not the kernel driver, only the Xorg drivers, as per the list of
> > > the files contained in this package:
> > > 	http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filel
> > >ist& word=nvidia-glx&version=edgy&arch=i386
> > >
> > > so I don't have a problem with them being distributed.
> >
> > I see. What of http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/misc/nvidia-kernel-source
> > ?
>
> That's just the source code for the module, you have to install it and
> build it yourself.  It is the end result of that action that is not able
> to be distributed under the GPL.
>
> This is how Ubuntu handles the issue with this driver, a legal solution,
> but not the nicest :)
>

Just for the record this isn't the only, nor the widest used method. As I 
didn't notice before, the linux-restricted-modules is used. All a user has to 
do, from their point of view, is install that package and then install 
nvidia-glx (and alter xorg.conf) and they're good to go. Seems the tidiest 
way I've seen to do it.

Regards,
Francis.