Originally Posted by Alex de Langraff
Legally, the Linux Exception does allow Nvidia-licensed modules to be included
and distributed (i've contacted nvidia about including them in my derivative,
and they had absolutly no problems with it, which is why i've included it
myself). Klaus has objected that the zlib-compression used would modify the
binary, and thus violate the license (which is correct), but again I've
contacted Nvidia and they stated that 'compressing' should be seen as any sort
of compression, not being library-dependant. Now I'm personally not going to
whine about the difference (having personal confirmation), but this is a
difference serious enough for it to not be included in either Debian non-free or
Knoppix, both using different compression types and thus, if the license is
taken literally, would be incompatible for even distributing it.
Note that this was about the XFree86 driver, but the same would apply for the
nforce driver supplied by Nvidia.
Cheers, and IANAL,
Alex