Licensing and technical issues with a Wine package that includes the Mozilla ActiveX Control

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at ubuntu.com
Sun Nov 20 16:01:38 CST 2005


On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:01:08PM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> This sounds much like the way the situation is with the NVidia drivers.
> Would building the package be the right way to go here, with the
> ultimate destination being the restricted copyright repository in
> Ubuntu?  Or is there something I'm overlooking here (perhaps reading the
> license wrong)?

Er.  The NVIDIA drivers have no source code and you cannot modify them
(as with the ATI drivers), but you are given explicit permission to
freely redistribute them.  Restrictions on redistribution are far more
problematic than that.
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