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Re: [gNewSense-users] help with an article about gNS
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Ted Smith |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] help with an article about gNS |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:09:15 -0500 |
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 09:48 +0100, Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am writing an article about gnewsense for a german online magazine
> (http://www.freiesmagazin.de/). For this article i'd need some
> examples of non-free software, which is included in ubuntu and was
> removed when building gns. it would be very important for these
> examples to be well-documented, i.e. the non-freeness of this software
> should be easily verifiable - if not, i will not be able to mention
> the example in the article.
> software which could be mentioned includes binary firmware and drivers
> in the ubuntu kernel.
> i would be very grateful if you could send me the name of some
> software, together with one or more links where to find the necessary
> information about the software.
> the more examples i can mention in this article, the better.
>
> thanks in advance for your help,
> ben
From the package nvidia-glx-177 (the non-free nvidia driver):
> 2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE
> on a single computer, and except for making one back-up copy of
> the Software, may not otherwise copy the SOFTWARE. This LICENSE
> of SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different
> computers.
>
> 2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of
> Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux
> operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that
> the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for
> unzipping of compressed files).
>
> 2.1.3 Limitations.
>
> No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer,
> decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other
> manner to obtain the source code.
>
> No Separation of Components. The SOFTWARE is licensed as a
> single product. Its component parts may not be separated for use
> on more than one computer, nor otherwise used separately from the
> other parts.
>
> No Rental. Customer may not rent or lease the SOFTWARE to someone
> else.
And it goes on like that, in a similar vein. The full
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-177/copyright file is attached.
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