Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently"

Matthias Andree
2003-01-08T21:20:54Z

On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:

> When you take part of my statement, stretch it, interpret it based on
> assumptions you know I disagree with, and present the result as
> something I said, that doesn't prove anything. It is childish.
>
> There is no ethical obligation to mention secondary contributions
> incorporated in a large project. There ethical obligation is to cite
> the main developer. In the GNU/Linux system, the GNU Project is the
> principal contributor; the system is more GNU than anything else,
> and we started it.

You overestimate your influence. Now please go invest your energy into
something that a) is more likely to succeed, b) does not happen on this
list.

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Matthias Andree