With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
I have a RTX 4060ti. What does this mean to me, when running Debian desktop OS? Is the driver no longer “BLOB” limited? Can we see full code at github?
(Don’t get me wrong, I can compile kernels and code. I just don’t understand the nuances of all these licenses. My eyes literally glaze over when people start talking about licensing, I know the flat OSS licenses but “dual GPL/MIT”? I’m falling asleep asking this!
I have a RTX 4060ti. What does this mean to me, when running Debian desktop OS? Is the driver no longer “BLOB” limited? Can we see full code at github?
(Don’t get me wrong, I can compile kernels and code. I just don’t understand the nuances of all these licenses. My eyes literally glaze over when people start talking about licensing, I know the flat OSS licenses but “dual GPL/MIT”? I’m falling asleep asking this!
The majority of the driver is still a proprietary blob.