Re: [Plf-discuss] Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349)

2003-04-01 Thread Guillaume Rousse 
Ainsi parlait Levi Ramsey :
 On Tue Apr 01  0:01 +0200, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
  On Monday 31 March 2003 23:41, villin wrote:
   Hello,
   it seems that nvidia is trying to make a step not to open source but to
   update easily it's drivers under linux...
   http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349
   I'll try them asap as my download is finished.
   Olivier
 
  gaaah, this is baaad.. give us back ze rpms

 Build RPMs yourself... they're now licensed such that they can be
 redistributed and repackaged, so long as the binary-only components are
 not modified?

 A candidate for PLF, perhaps?  (Hence the Cc: to plf-discuss)
Legality wasn't really the motivation. The original decision was to avoid 
everything present in mdk commercial section, to avoid redundancy first, and 
to keep boxed set an added value.

However, now that club exists and tend to embrace everything, i'm not sure 
this policy will be relevant forever.
-- 
The speed with which components become obsolete is directly proportional to 
the price of the component. 
-- Murphy's Computer Laws n°9

Re: [Plf-discuss] Re: [Cooker] New Nvidia drivers for Linux (4349)

2003-04-01 Thread Buchan Milne 
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Guillaume Rousse wrote:
 Ainsi parlait Levi Ramsey :

 Legality wasn't really the motivation. The original decision was to avoid
 everything present in mdk commercial section, to avoid redundancy
first, and
 to keep boxed set an added value.

 However, now that club exists and tend to embrace everything, i'm not
sure
 this policy will be relevant forever.

Well, we used to prevent eroding the value of the boxed sets, and
MandrakeClub IMHO qualifies as a boxed set subscription for 1 year, so
I don't think we should erode the value of MandrakeClub either.

The drivers still are not open-source, and even though PLF does include
some software which is not open-source, the majority is. I don't think
PLF's main purpose is to distribute non-free software.

Regards,
Buchan

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