Nvidia gives up, supports open source

Nvidia, which has been away from the open source community for years on the grounds that trade secrets and technologies can be misused, and which is at the center of sometimes insulting criticism, is taking a step back. It will now also open source graphics drivers.

Open source move from Nvidia

According to the company’s statement, the core part of Nvidia graphics technologies will be made open source. It is stated that the R515 driver was first published under the model that combines GPL and MIT licenses.

Turing and Ampere architecture The open source move, which includes Drivers are ready for use for A-series, Tesla and Quadro accelerators. It’s still in alpha and bug-prone for GeForce and RTX A-series.

Red Hat, Ubuntu, and SUSE distributions quickly started integrating drivers. Nvidia also states that developers who agree to sign the license agreement will be able to distribute their own open source patches.

It is not known whether Nvidia’s decision was caused by Steam Deck developments or an agreement not to share data after the LAPSUS$ attack. Although some sources say that most of the modern graphics driver will remain closed, it is possible to say that it is the most important move for open source.