On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:14 pm, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
"Novell reserves all rights not expressly granted to You. You may not: (1) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software except and only to the extent it is expressly permitted by applicable law or the license terms accompanying a component of the Software; or (2) transfer the Software or Your license rights under this Agreement, in whole or in part."
That should be applicable to non gpld packages packaged in the distro - nvidia drivers. You can do as the gpl permits with any gpld package.