How to use NVIDIA Official driver on Fedora
Benjamin J. Weiss
benjamin at Weiss.name
Wed May 26 12:16:41 UTC 2004
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > While you wait for the kernel to build, send an email to
> > linux-bugs at nvidia.com and put some more pressure on them to release
> > updated drivers so you don't have to go through this ordeal in the
> > future ;)
>
> And ask them to make the drivers open source (GPL) rather than the nasty
> way they have them currently.
>
They can't. They're constrained by the licenses of third-party modules
that they include (in hardware or software, I don't know). If they tried
to open-source their drivers, they'd be breakng the law.
Ben
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