From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Don Bedsole <dbedsole@carolina.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nvidia legal to use by end-users?
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:04:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147989871.3017.3.camel@gimli.at.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605181650.52537.dbedsole@carolina.rr.com>
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:50 -0400, Don Bedsole wrote:
[...]
> Question: If I download and install the Nvidia graphics card drivers from
> their site, am I violating the GPL as an end-user? I was thinking the the
No (if you only download, use and/or change it).
> GPL mainly covered what you are allowed or not allowed to do if you
> distribute software. I ask because I saw on the OpenSuse site a statement to
Exactly. Which is the proof that an end-user (which per definition
doesn't distribute sofwtare) cannot violate the GPL.
> the effect that OpenSuse would not ship Nvidia, Ati drivers because some
> kernel developers consider them a violation of their copyrights.
OpenSuse is obviously not an enduser and - as a "software distributor" -
must care about the GPL.
JftSoC: This doesn't state any opinion about OpenSuse violating the
license if they distribute said drivers from Nvidia.
Bernd
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-18 20:50 Don Bedsole
2006-05-18 21:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-18 22:04 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
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