Dominique Leuenberger schrieb:

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What sort of legal issue are we talking about? The driver, according to nVidia, can be freely distributed. The only issue I can see is the point of the kernel maintainers.

oh, only "the point of the kernel maintainers" .... isn't that the middle of universe of opensuse ?

But if somebody would put the drivers on the BuildServer, this shouldn't be a problem in my opinion.

that opinion isn't importend. sorry Dominique, but the only importend opinions are "the laws" and "the GPL".

I would offer to make it myself, BUT I'll need some help, as I never did some RPMs before... I think at least for the first, I'd need some good examples and instructions.

Using the Build Service, we could offer drivers for all kernels and versions of openSUSE (the topic arised for me as nVidia released a newer driver than the one available as RPM at the moment)

Dominique

I don't think nVidia will give you the complete sources of there drivers. if they would, the discussion on this list about the kernel, drivers, opensource and closed source would be over. but what you will get is only the source of the interface between kernel and driver, not the complete driver. the kernel is GPL-based. Novell respects the GPL - shouldn't we all do the same ? the nVidia-driver ( and the licence ) ( as a lot of drivers, not only from nvidia ) are not compatible with the GPL. as long as a) the kernel maintainers don't allow anything outside the GPL and b) companys like nVidia think they need closed source drivers there will be no way to offer (nVidia-)drivers that aren't in conflict with licence. first thing is always the licence / the law. the point of view for the needs / the user is always the second. always one step behind the first. with regards, JBScout aka Thomy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org