[CentOS] nvidia drivers

Thu Apr 5 15:31:00 UTC 2007

Bisbal, Prentice wrote:
> I'll bet there are legal issue preventing that. Read NVidia's licensing
> agreement. I'm sure there's a paragraph preventing redistribution of the
> binaries. 
> 

	Actually, it looks like that's changed. Here's a quote from NVidia...
"...Why does NVIDIA not provide RPMs anymore?

Not every Linux distribution uses RPM, and NVIDIA wanted a single 
solution that would work across all Linux distributions. As indicated in 
the NVIDIA Software License, Linux distributions are welcome to 
repackage and redistribute the NVIDIA Linux driver in whatever package 
format they wish..."

found on this page:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/chapter-04.html
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--- David