Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:40:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:37:22 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:48773 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:36:24 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: davids@webmaster.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20030104031031.AAA17564@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (message from David Schwartz on Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:10:30 -0800) Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers? Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <20030104031031.AAA17564@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> Message-Id: Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 18:44:58 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1170 Lines: 29 Defending shrink wrap licensing agreements, arguing to weaken fair use and first sale doctrines, and arguing that if you include a header it's a derived work is a strange way to defend intellectual freedom. Those are not my views. Are you confusing me with someone else? >If open source is so good, companies with closed source products will >change. Yes, even without being coerced and pressured to do so by restrictive licenses. The Open Source Movement says that will happen; when it does, that's good, but if we had relied on that to give us freedom, we wouldn't have any free operating systems today. In the Free Software Movement we think freedom is worth working for. If companies don't choose to respect our freedom, we don't cite that and say "it's hopeless" and we don't say that makes non-freedom ok. We write free replacements and build freedom for ourselves--and for you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/