-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2013-09-20 at 00:05 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Forgive me but what has the kernel licence terms have to do with the use of the nVidia driver?
The driver is not incorporated into the kernel so there is no problem with distributing it, right?
Wrong. The driver is connected to the kernel via a module or two, which are in fact, "kernel modules". The proprietary and binary only driver uses an open source kernel module to connect to it. This is, somehow, linking against the kernel, and distributing such a module in binary form is against the kernel license, like it or not. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlI7MzQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WHxwCfS1cgAXr4cc/ooBS/xU5sPISz wV4An1NO98DazqaZwbK1Qiqeg5SF5UeI =pagN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org