From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:04:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:04:06 -0500 Received: from 12-211-138-234.client.attbi.com ([12.211.138.234]:29811 "EHLO vlad.geekizoid.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:04:04 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Vlad@Vlad.geekizoid.com" To: Cc: , , , , , Subject: RE: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:12:34 -0600 Message-ID: <014901c2b83c$fa1fc5d0$0200a8c0@wsl3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Double Plus Good Richard, Double Plus Good. "Withers, however, was already an unperson. He did not exist: he had never existed." -- George Orwell's 1984 -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Richard Stallman Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:13 PM To: billh@gnuppy.monkey.org Cc: mark@mark.mielke.cc; lm@bitmover.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; paul@clubi.ie; riel@conectiva.com.br; billh@gnuppy.monkey.org Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? There is no such thing as an open source community. The people who founded the open source movement in 1998, and the people who support it now, are part of the free software community. (We in the free software movement built the community in the 80s with our determined effort.)