From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL and Nvidia
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:19:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E14202D.4050909@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0301020032220.8691-100000@fogarty.jakma.org
I think we were suckered into the GPL by lawyers ;)
Seriously though, I believe the GPL is the biggest impediment to
gnu/linux and open source software that anyone could possibly come up
with. Frankly I'm suprised NVidia and others bother supporting linux,
but am very glad they do.
IMO The only license we need is
"Here is, for what it's worth, some software. You can use it in any way
you like; modify it, fix it and if you can make some money from it -
great! Go feed your family. Fixes, changes and improvements are always
welcome, but not mandatory. Enjoy!"
We'd likely have to set up a hardship fund for lawyers though. Wouldn't
want them to starve ;)
Too late for gnu/linux though. :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-01 4:37 GPL and Nvidia Hell.Surfers
2003-01-01 7:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-01 16:44 ` Dan Egli
2003-01-02 0:33 ` Paul Jakma
2003-01-02 11:19 ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2003-01-02 17:21 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-02 20:48 ` David Schwartz
2003-01-02 21:26 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-03 5:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-03 9:17 ` Helge Hafting
2003-01-02 21:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-02 21:56 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-02 21:46 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-01-02 22:39 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-01-02 23:40 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-01-01 16:35 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-01 18:05 Hell.Surfers
2003-01-02 21:44 ` Bill Davidsen
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