I have talked to Terrence Ripperda who is one of the developers at NVidia. From what I remember him saying, they would be willing to at least consider changing their license to allow distribution. It has been a while since I talked to him however so I may be mistaken. You may want to contact him to see, the best way I know of contacting him is on #nvidia on openprojects IRC network. Chris Cheney On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:11:40PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > hi Marcus, > > > Great stuff! What's the licence on these anyway ? Will they make their > > way into the debian archives ? > sorry but the license prohibid distribution :( > > http://www.nvidia.com/Products/OpenLinuxDwn.nsf/xfree86_40Downloadmain?OpenPage > > ... > 2. GRANT OF LICENSE. > > 2.1 Rights and Limitations of Grant. NVIDIA hereby grants Customer the following non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the SOFTWARE, with the following limitations: > > 2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a single computer, and except for making one back-up copy of the Software, may not otherwise copy the > SOFTWARE. This LICENSE of SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers. > > 2.1.2 Limitations. > > No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain the source code. No Separation > of Components. The SOFTWARE is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one computer, nor otherwise used separately from > the other parts. No Rental. Customer may not rent or lease the SOFTWARE to someone else. > ... > > -- > Raphael Bossek <raphael.bossek@solutions4linux.de> [ICQ #40047651] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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