Re: [gNewSense-users] help with an article about gNS

[Ted Smith]

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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