On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:44, Luke -Jr wrote:
However, the current state of nVidia/ATi's drivers is not legal.
IANAL - but I work for one, and I know you're not either, and you are also not doing as requested and citing the section of the GPL that would make this "illegal".
I note that nVidia and ATI have been distributing Linux-compatible drivers for a while now, and they're not in court over it.
I don't use them, but from the discussions I've heard they get compiled locally, which strongly suggests that the source code is available, which would suggest to me that they're quit compatible with what I know of the GPL and open software.
Rampant misunderstanding and miss-interpretation of the implications of Open Source licensing is one of the things that holds commercial developers and hardware companies back from participating in the OS community, so your ranting is not only not helping, it's hurting.
Go read the GPL. Go read the DSL site. Learn something.