On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:11 -0500, Steven Pasternak wrote: > > I really don't like having trouble in this area. Not even for a short > > period of time. I'd like to be able to install Fedora, and have everything > > working out of the box. I don't want to mess around with downloading > > drivers and trying to shoehorn them in, somehow. > So would everyone else. NVIDIA's STUPID license makes you download the driver > because you can't ship it with a distro or something like that. Xandros OS > somehow got around that, but that is the only one that I know of that does. I believe that nVidia recently ammended their license to allow that 2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from the source code to these operating systems, may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files). I also remember reading that ATI had allowed similar exceptions for their binary drivers. Paul
