Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] GPL Issues surrounding Mepis and the can of worms he opened.

[Tony B. <tb...@gm...>]

There is something we are all missing - including the folks at ati and
nvidia and apparently most distro vendors and distributors.

http://kororaa.org/

Check the link and see the response that the fsf guys gave Chris of Kororaa.

This, IMHO, is a huge stumbling block and may have other issues with stuff
like ndiswrapper,etc since these are similar efforts to get hardware working
with non-gpl drivers,etc.



On 6/29/06, hanumizzle <han...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 6/29/06, Tony Brijeski <tb...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > The kernel dev told the guy he was in violation of the gpl for including
> the
> > nvidia drivers along with the kernel.
>
> I don't understand. How else are you supposed to distribute the nvidia
> drivers? Ubuntu receives a lot of press these days, and yet:
>
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apackages.ubuntu.com+nvidia&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
>
> Is there something I'm missing?
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