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toadlife:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---In which case, let it fail!

You do know that it's partly LGPL?
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Yeah. Hopefully, that will allow for commercial video driver support. If not, Y is already dead.

Refalm:
Kintaro, I've had the same problem. I refrained from using Nautilus in KDE a long time ago, but I remember there was something like

--- Code: ---nautilus --no-desktop
--- End code ---
that prevents that awful Gnome interface from loading in that beautiful KDE desktop.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---Yeah. Hopefully, that will allow for commercial video driver support. If not, Y is already dead.
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All NVIDIA gotta do, is release their drivers under the GPL.
Sorted.

WMD:
I don't think they have to do even that...

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: WMD ---I don't think they have to do even that...
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Well, there is another way, aparantly:

--- Quote from: http://www.y-windows.org/pipermail/y-devel/2004-March/001041.html ---If they make drivers that link with the Y server, they must release them
under the GPL or not at all (score one for those of us running GNU/Linux
on anything other than x86, and another for us GPL "nuts" :) ).  If they
free their drivers, I would gladly volunteer to write a graphical
installer if only because I would be in such a good mood.

If, on the other hand, they link with the client, (I'm sorry to say I
don't yet know enough about how Y works either to know which case would
apply) they will be able to release the drivers as .o files.
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I'm glad the Y server is GPL, it'll make it at least a small bit tougher for the video card manufacturers release non-free video drivers.
I'm fecking sick of non-free video drivers. Neither ATi or Nvidia have free (as in freedom, as usual) drivers, and at that, I can't play any half modern 3d games.

Anyone know which other video card manufacturers release free drivers? I know 3dfx used to (they were at least open-source, not sure if they qualify as free software (by GNUs definition)).

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