> On 28 Nov 2021, at 18:00, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > > On 11/28/21 2:59 AM, Tim via users wrote: >> So, if they can do that, why can't we do something similar? Or at >> least, automate figuring out which driver needs installing. There's a >> look-up chart that we have to manually trawl through, can't we pull >> that data into some software? > > We can't do that for the same reasons that the drivers can't be in the > official Fedora repos: they're closed source binary blobs, not open source. > Ubuntu can do that because they don't have the same restrictions that we do.
It used to be that the NVIDIA license needed the end user to accept its conditions. Having anyone but the end user install the NVIDIA driver was explicitly not allowed. In a previous job we wanted to bundle the NVIDIA driver with a linux product and could not get NVIDIA to agree to a suitable license to allow this. I'm not sure how Ubuntu has work around license issue. What this means for Fedora is that there are two barriers. 1) its close source. 2) the license prevents fedora from doing the install automatically. Barry _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
