nvidia

[Bruce Byfield]

On Sun, 2007-28-10 at 13:58 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >   
>     For God's sake why is something that you can d/l from their web site 
> in the USA be illegal in the USA? Why does it not meet the Fedora 
> policy? Where can I read the policy?

Try the front page of the Fedora project. For more detail, see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview

>     If your stating the intent of the policy is to diminish the 
> availability of Fedora to new users then the policy needs to change.

The fact that, earlier this month, the Fedora marketing list was
considering adapting the slogan "Freedom is a feature" should tell you
something. Fedora's policy is to ship nothing that isn't free software
-- and drivers whose code is proprietary don't meet the definition, even
if they are free for the download.

This policy is such a cornerstone of Fedora that it is highly unlikely
to change. 

Other distributions have different policies. If using the non-free
drivers provided by NVidia is a priority for you, then, with all
respect, perhaps you should look into them instead of using Fedora.

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