On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:47:48AM +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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Bernhard Walle 09/05/06 12:00 PM >>> Well, and what is if the hardware vendor develops _no_ driver at all for Linux after that?

Well, then the chance is even bigger that someone successfully develops an open-source driver because then there is actually a _need_ for it. If this does not work then you just don't use this hardware with Linux any longer.

To be honest, I understand the point of the kernel development team but I also understand the hardware vendors not being willing to open their sources.

Sure. I think all smart people here understand both points but understanding the point of someone else does not necessarily mean that you must serve the other party.

Nevertheless, I'm trying to find a solution suitable for the user (if the kernel maintainers have a problem with legal issues on the nvidia drivers, THEY should sue them). I think WE of the opensuse.org project

_Only_ they can sue them. You cannot sue someone for violating a license if you are not the owner of the rights of the software.

should focus on our users and to make it conveniant for them. Novell takes somewhat a strange position in this game, as they released RPMs for SLE{D,S}, which luckily work with SuSE Linux 10.1 (even though

They did not. The release is actually done by the respective hardware vendors. Novell does only give technical advice. That way the hardware vendor is the one that takes the major risk to being sued.

it's not the ACTUAL driver anymore). But they're NOT willing to create new RPMs for openSUSE nor are there RPMs with the actual driver.

Ask the hardware vendor for that.

Could anyone give me some indications on how to process creating such an RPM? I'd take care of all sort of updates (be it new release of nVidia

Read the mailing list archives. There are various pointers to RPM documentation. If a specific questions remains, feel free to ask. Robert -- Robert Schiele Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@gmail.com "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."