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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:00:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > The problem with this is that Nvidia license non-free code for use in |
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> > their drivers. They are not allowed to distribute the source, or other |
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> > information about the code, so they have two choices for Linux |
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> > drivers: |
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> They could rewrite it step by step and release the rewritten parts |
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> to the community. |
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No they couldn't, at least not without ensuring that no one working on |
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the new code has seen any of the licensed code. So they need to pay a |
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separate team of developers to develop an alternative to something |
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they've already paid for. Can you see them going for that? |
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Such a task is better undertaken by people outside of Nvidia, but if it |
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was that simple it would have been done already. |
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