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On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:35:15AM +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > On Thursday 13 September 2007 09:14, Rob Beard wrote: > > Ben Goodger wrote: > > > http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ > > > > > > I am never going to buy NVIDIA again. > > > Well, not until they release their specs also... > I belive Novell are working with them on some drivers - they may not release > the specs but I would imagine the drivers will be GPLed. > I find it strange that they wont release the specs - once you've released a > driver you've effectively given away the spec if in a slightly encrypted > form. For those that will be termed the competition they'll have the > technology to find the specs in a day or so of running a board on a test rig > so I cant see the point myself. It depends how well the driver is written - it could be anywhere from "slightly encrypted" to "complete and utter gibberish". Having the spec available would make life a lot easier for any free software developers working on the driver. > You get Novell to sign an NDA and work with them on GLPed drivers without > releasing the spec and you will probably get a couple of months of ripping > people off before someone works out how to get the cheap version to work I thought that if something was written under an NDA it couldn't be GPL, because releasing something under a free licence is, basically, disclosure? Or am I missing something? -- Benjamin A'Lee <bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ Behind every great man is a very surprised woman.
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