"Don't get me wrong, I would love to see open source nVidia drivers. But apparently writing a graphics driver is not like writing an 802.11 controller driver that conforms to some IEEE spec. The drivers do contain proprietary code (Texture compression algorithms like S3TC, re-ordering of shader instructions, etc) and cannot simply be GPL'd."
[^] # Re: XFree86 : ce qui s'est passé depuis 1 an
Posté par gnumdk (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche XFree86 : ce qui s'est passé depuis 1 an. Évalué à 2.
"Don't get me wrong, I would love to see open source nVidia drivers. But apparently writing a graphics driver is not like writing an 802.11 controller driver that conforms to some IEEE spec. The drivers do contain proprietary code (Texture compression algorithms like S3TC, re-ordering of shader instructions, etc) and cannot simply be GPL'd."