Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst and modular Xorg
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:44:59
Message-Id: 1155048259.11843.7.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst and modular Xorg by Luca Casagrande
1 On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 16:22 +0200, Luca Casagrande wrote:
2 > I have read this about the problem kororaa live distro...Then there's no way
3 > of building a livecd that uses nvidia and ATI driver? Then i don't understand
4 > how other live distro do...
5
6 They're breaking the law. Plain and simple.
7
8 The *only* way that you can do this is to provide the sources for the
9 kernel, the drivers, and a toolchain, and compile the drivers at boot.
10 Anything else is in violation of the GPL, and, at least in any country
11 that is a member of the WIPO, illegal.
12
13 --
14 Chris Gianelloni
15 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
16 x86 Architecture Team
17 Games - Developer
18 Gentoo Linux

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