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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:40:02 -0400
From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:32:42 -0500
David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> wrote:

>  Ugh... the network driver portion of the nforce drivers is *not*
>  GPL'd but it
> has a linux only and anti-reverse engineeing clause.
> 
> Dave

Then using the diver on FreeBSD will be a NVidia's license violation,
wouldn't it? One more reason to keep it out of the tree.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev