Nvidia Licensing Question

[Joe Warner]

On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:23 pm, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> This is becoming a really annoying FAQ.

I apologize, I searched the lists to see if this topic had already
been covered but didn't come up with anything.  Maybe I was
using the wrong search terms?

>
> The reason nobody has ported the NIC driver is because the source code is
> not provided; it's just a binary driver with a wrapper.  You'd be just as
> well off trying to port the Windows driver...
>
> I didn't look into the sound driver at all, it may be the same way.

Thanks for the explanation and sorry to be a bother, I just prefer the
truth to heresay.

-- Joe

>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Joe Warner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was talking to someone recently about why there isn't
> > support for Nvidia's Nforce drivers under FreeBSD yet.