On 5 January 2016 at 13:08, jdd
Le 05/01/2016 12:59, Per Jessen a écrit :
jdd wrote:
Le 05/01/2016 01:05, Felix Miata a écrit :
needs to for me. I've never installed any proprietary driver on any of my own Linux systems. FOSS and the hardware it supports rulez! :-)
"proprietary" nvidia driver seems to be opensource now.
Really? How did you determine that? That would be quite big news.
the nvidia repo is:
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1
and in YaST, thechnical datas:
nvidia-computeG03 - NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU
Version alternative Version installée Version : 340.93-36.1 340.93-36.1 Heure de la version : lun. 19 oct. 2015 13:53:11 CEST lun. 19 oct. 2015 13:53:11 CEST Heure de l'installation :
mer. 23 déc. 2015 12:09:16 CET Groupe de paquetages : System/Libraries System/Libraries Licence : PERMISSIVE-OSI-COMPLIANT < < < < the important part here PERMISSIVE-OSI-COMPLIANT Taille de l'installation : 41,4 MiB 41,4 MiB Taille du téléchargement : 12,9 MiB 0 B Distribution :
home:sndirsch:drivers / openSUSE_42.1 Fournisseur : obs://build.suse.de/home:sndirsch:drivers obs://build.suse.de/home:sndirsch:drivers Créateur du paquetage :
Architecture : x86_64 x86_64 Hôte de la version :
URL :
Paquetage source : x11-video-nvidiaG03-340.93-36.1 x11-video-nvidiaG03-340.93-36.1 N° support : 0 0 Auteurs :
http://http.download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1/NVIDIA-LICENSE has the following clauses "2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a single computer, and except for making one back-up copy of the Software, may not otherwise copy the SOFTWARE. This LICENSE of SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers." "2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from the source code to these operating systems, may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files)." "2.1.3 Limitations. No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain the source code." This makes it very clear that the NVIDIA Proprietary driver is still very much proprietary and not open source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org