<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content= "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <title>Chapter 36. Acknowledgements</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title= "NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver README and Installation Guide"> <link rel="up" href="installationandconfiguration.html" title= "Part I. Installation and Configuration Instructions"> <link rel="prev" href="addtlresources.html" title= "Chapter 35. NVIDIA Contact Info and Additional Resources"> <link rel="next" href="appendices.html" title= "Part II. Appendices"> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center"> Chapter 36. 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Acknowledgements</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term">loki_update</span></dt> <dd> <p><code class="filename">nvidia-installer</code> was inspired by the <code class="filename">loki_update</code> tool: <a href= "http://icculus.org/loki_setup/" target= "_top">http://icculus.org/loki_setup/</a></p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">snarf</span></dt> <dd> <p>The FTP and HTTP support in <code class= "filename">nvidia-installer</code> is based upon <code class= "filename">snarf 7.0</code>: <a href="http://www.xach.com/snarf/" target="_top">http://www.xach.com/snarf/</a></p> <p>The source code for nvidia-installer, including the FTP/HTTP code based on snarf, is available at: <a href= "ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-installer/" target= "_top">ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-installer/</a></p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">makeself</span></dt> <dd> <p>The self-extracting archive (also known as the <code class= "filename">.run</code> file) is generated using <code class= "filename">makeself.sh</code>: <a href= "http://www.megastep.org/makeself/" target= "_top">http://www.megastep.org/makeself/</a></p> <p>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.:</p> <pre class="screen"> $ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.57.run --extract-only $ ls -l NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.57/makeself.sh </pre> <p></p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">LLVM</span></dt> <dd> <p>Portions of the NVIDIA OpenCL implementation contain components licensed from third parties under the following terms:</p> <div class="literallayout"> <p>Clang & LLVM:<br> Copyright (c) 2003-2008 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<br> All rights reserved.</p> </div> <div class="literallayout"> <p>Portions of LLVM's System library:<br> Copyright (C) 2004 eXtensible Systems, Inc.</p> </div> <div class="literallayout"> <p>Developed by:<br> LLVM Team<br> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br> <a href="http://llvm.org" target="_top">http://llvm.org</a></p> </div> <p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal with 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:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.</p> </li> <li> <p>Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</p> </li> <li> <p>Neither the names of the LLVM Team, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">xz-embedded</span></dt> <dd> <p>The self-installing .run package is compressed using xz, and includes a decompressor built from the xz-embedded project, available at <a href="http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html" target= "_top">http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html</a>.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">jansson</span></dt> <dd> <p>nvidia-settings uses jansson for parsing configuration files, available at <a href="http://www.digip.org/jansson/" target= "_top">http://www.digip.org/jansson/</a>.</p> <p>This library carries the following copyright notice:</p> <p>Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org></p> <p>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:</p> <p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.</p> <p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">lz4</span></dt> <dd> <p>The NVIDIA GPU driver uses the lz4 compression algorithm as implemented by the lz4 library, available at <a href= "https://code.google.com/p/lz4/" target= "_top">https://code.google.com/p/lz4/</a>.</p> <p>This library carries the following copyright notice:</p> <div class="literallayout"> <p>LZ4 - Fast LZ compression algorithm<br> Copyright (C) 2011-2013, Yann Collet.<br> BSD 2-Clause License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)</p> </div> <p>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.</p> </li> <li> <p>Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <p>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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 COPYRIGHT OWNER 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.</p> <p>You can contact the author at :</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>LZ4 source repository : <a href="http://code.google.com/p/lz4/" target="_top">http://code.google.com/p/lz4/</a></p> </li> <li> <p>LZ4 public forum : <a href= "https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lz4c" target= "_top">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lz4c</a></p> </li> </ul> </div> <p></p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">PNG Library</span></dt> <dd> <p>The NVIDIA X driver splash screen is decoded using <code class= "filename">libpng</code>: <a href= "http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html" target= "_top">http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html</a></p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">X.Org</span></dt> <dd> <p>This NVIDIA Linux driver contains code from the X.Org project.</p> <p>Source code from the X.Org project is available from <a href= "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver" target= "_top">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver</a></p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">NetBSD Compiler Intrinsics</span></dt> <dd> <p>The NetBSD implementations of the following compiler intrinsics are used for better portability: __udivdi3, __umoddi3, __divdi3, __moddi3, __ucmpdi2, __cmpdi2, __fixunssfdi, __fixunsdfdi, __ashldi3 and __lshrdi3.</p> <p>These carry the following copyright notice:</p> <p>Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.</p> <p>This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and contributed to Berkeley.</p> <p>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:</p> <div class="orderedlist"> <ol type="1"> <li> <p>Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.</p> </li> <li> <p>Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</p> </li> <li> <p>All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.</p> </li> <li> <p>Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.</p> </li> </ol> </div> <p>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS 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 REGENTS 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.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">JSMN</span></dt> <dd> <p>This NVIDIA Linux driver uses a JSON parser based on <code class="filename">jsmn</code>: <a href= "http://zserge.bitbucket.org/jsmn.html" target= "_top">http://zserge.bitbucket.org/jsmn.html</a></p> <p>This library carries the following copyright notice:</p> <p>Copyright (c) 2010 Serge A. Zaitsev</p> <p>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:</p> <p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.</p> <p>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">SHA-256</span></dt> <dd> <p>Portions of the driver use the SHA-256 algorithm derived from sha2.c: <a href="https://github.com/ouah/sha2/blob/master/sha2.c" target= "_top">https://github.com/ouah/sha2/blob/master/sha2.c</a></p> <p>This library carries the following copyright notice:</p> <p>Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Olivier Gay <olivier.gay@a3.epfl.ch> All rights reserved.</p> <p>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:</p> <div class="orderedlist"> <ol type="1"> <li> <p>Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.</p> </li> <li> <p>Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</p> </li> <li> <p>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.</p> </li> </ol> </div> <p>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. 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