[Centos] External yum and apt Repositories and CentOS4

C.M. Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu
Mon Feb 21 18:13:13 UTC 2005


"sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>

    sv> We've had to go through this with Fedora Extras quite a
    sv> bit b/c lots of folks want things like the nvidia and ati
    sv> binary-only drivers or mp3 playing or dvd decrypting and
    sv> we just can't do it.

DVDs are definitely an issue, but Debian ships MP3 players in
main, and the binary nVidia drivers are available from
non-free[*], so someone thinks it's allowable.

(I actually get my nVidia drivers from Dell's dell-nvidia
packages, which use their DKMS framework to handle building them
for new kernels.)

   Claire

* The copyright file in the Debian nvidia-glx package includes a
  message from nVidia saying that (1) binary kernel module
  packages are okay, and (2) splitting the components of the
  upstream nVidia driver package into separate distro packages is
  okay.  The nVidia guy goes on to say ``Please feel free to
  redistribute the NVIDIA graphics driver.'' -- the license file
  for the driver also says

      2.1.2  Linux Exception.  Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of
      Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the
      operating Linux system may be copied and redistributed,
      operating provided that the binary files thereof are not
      modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files).

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