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Saying "and future" is like taunting fate Anyway, in case someone was interested it seems the code itself is cited as MIT, however it has a "when it becomes a
by mdaniel 1y ago
Saying "and future" is like taunting fate
Anyway, in case someone was interested it seems the code itself is cited as MIT, however it has a "when it becomes a Linux .ko it becomes GPLv2" clause https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.76.05/COPYING https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7... and they do go out of their way to say "lol, needs binary blobs" https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.76.05/README.md?plain=1#L18-L19 https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7...
That XFree86.run has always struck me as "you're gonna what*?"
- account42 1y agoTo be fair, AMD's driver also needs proprietary firmware blobs. This is still infinitely better than having mistery sauce running in kernel space directly. A bigger problem is that there is no performant open source user-space counterpart like there is for AMD (Mesa with radeonsi for OpenGL and radv for Vulkan).