On Sun, 2007-28-10 at 13:58 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
For God's sake why is something that you can d/l from their web site
in the USA be illegal in the USA? Why does it not meet the Fedora policy? Where can I read the policy?
Try the front page of the Fedora project. For more detail, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
If your stating the intent of the policy is to diminish the
availability of Fedora to new users then the policy needs to change.
The fact that, earlier this month, the Fedora marketing list was considering adapting the slogan "Freedom is a feature" should tell you something. Fedora's policy is to ship nothing that isn't free software -- and drivers whose code is proprietary don't meet the definition, even if they are free for the download.
This policy is such a cornerstone of Fedora that it is highly unlikely to change.
Other distributions have different policies. If using the non-free drivers provided by NVidia is a priority for you, then, with all respect, perhaps you should look into them instead of using Fedora.