I wonder if anybody noticed that the source rpm's ARE available
here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Developer/OpenDrvDwn.nsf/b99b7f622d429347882
568c800771b6c/b5d08c2ad55d2589882568cb0077f10d/$FILE/NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-2.src
.rpm
http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Developer/OpenDrvDwn.nsf/b99b7f622d429347882
568c800771b6c/5d6fbf8c61014e4b882568cb00780d59/$FILE/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-2.src.rp
m
Now, what you are allowed to do with these sources, and if modified or
re-written to whom they would belong would
be interesting to know.....
BTW: I apologies in advance to any stuffed up formatting as I am at work
using Outlook :-(
Cheers:
Michael Perry.
R&D. Dep. Netafim Magal.
<<<<Line -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack>>>>
The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a
manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Foresman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Mon 08 May 2000 6:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Licence, issues, (Nvidia, binary, drivers
>
> perfect example of this is the creative SBLIVE driver.
>
> original sblive linux driver was closed source binary only driver.
>
> after creative opened the drivers source (and even provided developers
> from
> inside the company) there are daily improvements to the driver.
>
> and this driver is now a major part of most linux distributions, and will
> be
> in linux 2.4.0 as a standard module.
>
> If NVIDIA did this i would be VERY happy, and yes, the drivers would be
> much
> faster under linux than they are under WINXX.
>
> The reason people buy nvidia cards is because they are ****** fast.
> Faster
> than everything else out there. But from a publicity standpoint, it would
> be better if people didn't buy them and we went with something that had
> open
> source drivers. It just wouldn't be as fast.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ptah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 11:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Licence, issues, (Nvidia, binary, drivers
>
>
> > > Um, yes nVidia said they will correct their GPL violation. That's not
> > > what concerns me. What concerns me is people demanding that we start
> > > putting more non-free software in the distro. Pretty soon it'll get to
> > > the point where 25% of the distro (probably mostly drivers) are closed
> > > source. There's something disturbing about that. I don't want to go
> back
> > > to waiting 6 months to a year for a vendor to update their drivers.
> The
> > > power of the free software movement is to allow anyone with the proper
> > > knowledge to improve code..make it more efficient. I'd be just about
> > > willing to bet that within a month of nVidia releasing GPL'ed drivers,
> > > their video cards would see much improvement in their performance
> under
> > > Linux. So I guess my point is, if people want to buy closed source
> > > hardware, they can install the drivers themselves.
> > >
> >
> > Ok I see your point and I totally agree with you. John Carmack of ID
> > even said if the source code for drivers were available he would
> > take time and optimize each vendors drivers for linux.
> >
> >
