Re: nvidia drivers

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Bisbal, Prentice wrote:
I'll bet there are legal issue preventing that. Read NVidia's licensing
agreement. I'm sure there's a paragraph preventing redistribution of the
binaries.

	Actually, it looks like that's changed. Here's a quote from NVidia...
"...Why does NVIDIA not provide RPMs anymore?
	

Not every Linux distribution uses RPM, and NVIDIA wanted a single solution that would work across all Linux distributions. As indicated in the NVIDIA Software License, Linux distributions are welcome to repackage and redistribute the NVIDIA Linux driver in whatever package format they wish..."

found on this page:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/chapter-04.html
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--- David
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