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Originally posted by Ex-Cyber View PostThat's not really the issue, though. If something is under a non-copyleft license such as an MIT or BSD-style license, the original is still there and can be forked into an open continuation if the community is prepared to do so. Obfuscation hinders this, regardless of users nominally having the right to do it according to the license. I don't see how GPL protects against this except in the same sense that it "protects" against e.g. the Artistic license.
I don't want to start a (MIT/BSD)/GNU GPL troll here. As far as I'm concerned, my personnal choice is to code protected by the GNU (A)(L)GPL, that I cannot do on the new graphic stack.
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Originally posted by Smorg View PostIt isn't that they didn't want to open their blob, its that they can't. It contains code that AMD doesn't have the rights to release. Even if they did release it, you probably wouldn't want it. Redevelopment in order to cleanly integrate things with xorg seems to be working out nicely. AMD is being fully cooperative when it comes to hardware documentation as far as I can tell.
Originally posted by Smorg View PostThe important difference is: AMD actually wants free software solutions for their hardware. Nvidia does not.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostNVIDIA has nv driver. It's ugly and incomplete but it does support all NVIDIA GPUs and it IS open source.
The nv driver does not support all chipsets, in particular not the newer IGPs (GeForce 8200/8300/9300/9400). Also the driver code is obfuscated, which means hacking on it is intentionally made difficult.
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Originally posted by RobbieAB View Postif you look around the forums here, you will find people complaining that they haven't opened up their blob, and complaining more about AMD than about nVidia! So if they are going to be damned anyway, why bother opening it at all.
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