-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2013-09-19 at 10:49 +0200, C wrote:
What I did come across though (heated ML discussions etc) is a small group of vocal people who look at the world through Richard Stallman colored glasses, and who don't like that the NVIDIA drivers are a proprietary binary blob and wanted them removed completely from all distros.
Some distro communities complied with their demands (RH, openSUSE etc)... others didn't (PCLOS, and from what I can tell, Debian... the nVIDIA drivers are in the non-free repo for Debian).
Meanwhile loads of other binary blobs are "OK" in the non-free repos... just not the NVIDIA ones.
It smells a lot of an agenda against one particular vendor and very little like the parroting we see of it being a licensing issue on NVIDIA's part. Then again.. .I may have missed something.
Yes, you have. It is not the RS or similar people which object. Well, they may, but that would not be a problem: openSUSE distributes many pieces of software to which they "object". It is the kernel people who object, because they say that distributing the NVidia driver kernel modules breaks the kernel license. <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-06/msg00381.html> <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-06/msg00383.html> - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlI7C70ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XUvwCghR82eiydPPOdQLKvkOsl4far QokAn0/Pe5jHZYQ7d75YKrYi8nJ08wRu =0U6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org