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NVIDIA Licence Update (Linux Exception)
(startx) writes "I don't know how long this has been the case, but with the latest NVidia driver update comes a new installation method, which unifies the installation process almong all Linux distributions. Just for kicks I re-read the licence, and it has a new section labeled "2.1.2 Linux Exception" Basically GNU/Linux users are now free to redistribute the driver file. Not only this, but the FAQ section of the README file says you can redistribute in whatever form necessary, stating distributions are welcome to include it as a package as well. Woohoo!"
Well, Mandrake has a policy against including software that's not Open Source in the main distro (they made an exception for Netscape back in the day, though). However, PLF (the repository for patent or license-encumbered Mandrake packages) could be a place to find them, in which case it's just a urpmi away.
buy a Mandrake boxed set and you'll get the Nvidia drivers on the commercial applications CD.
Either that or you can join mandrake club which has had them too for a couple of weeks, although that is currently an unrleases version 4321 which the boxed versions are going to carry. It works here though =).
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