nvidia-installer was inspired by
the loki_update tool: http://icculus.org/loki_setup/
The self-extracting archive (also known as the .run file) is generated using makeself.sh: http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
The version of makeself.sh used to create the .run is bundled within the .run file, and can retrieved by extracting the .run file's contents, e.g.:
$ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.22.run --extract-only $ ls -l NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.22/makeself.sh
Portions of the NVIDIA OpenCL implementation contain components licensed from third parties under the following terms:
Clang & LLVM:
Copyright (c) 2003-2008 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
All rights reserved.
Portions of LLVM's System library:
Copyright (C) 2004 eXtensible Systems, Inc.
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LLVM Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://llvm.org
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The self-installing .run package is compressed using xz, and includes a decompressor built from the xz-embedded project, available at http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html.
nvidia-settings uses jansson for parsing configuration files, available at http://www.digip.org/jansson/.
This library carries the following copyright notice:
Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The NVIDIA GPU driver uses the lz4 compression algorithm as implemented by the lz4 library, available at https://code.google.com/p/lz4/.
This library carries the following copyright notice:
LZ4 - Fast LZ compression algorithm
Copyright (C) 2011-2013, Yann Collet.
BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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You can contact the author at :
LZ4 source repository : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
LZ4 public forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lz4c
This NVIDIA Linux driver contains code from the X.Org project.
Source code from the X.Org project is available from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver
The NetBSD implementations of the following compiler intrinsics are used for better portability: __udivdi3, __umoddi3, __divdi3, __moddi3, __ucmpdi2, __cmpdi2, __fixunssfdi, __fixunsdfdi, __ashldi3 and __lshrdi3.
These carry the following copyright notice:
Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and contributed to Berkeley.
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This NVIDIA Linux driver uses a JSON parser based on
jsmn: http://zserge.bitbucket.org/jsmn.html
This library carries the following copyright notice:
Copyright (c) 2010 Serge A. Zaitsev
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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Portions of the driver use the SHA-256 algorithm derived from sha2.c: https://github.com/ouah/sha2/blob/master/sha2.c
This library carries the following copyright notice:
Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Olivier Gay <olivier.gay@a3.epfl.ch> All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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Neither the name of the project nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
This NVIDIA Linux driver contains code from libselinux, which is released in the public domain.