Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:17:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:17:38 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:8870 "EHLO mail.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:17:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 06:26:13 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Richard Stallman Cc: lm@bitmover.com, acahalan@cs.uml.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Message-ID: <20030107142612.GO17602@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Richard Stallman , lm@bitmover.com, acahalan@cs.uml.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200301050802.h0582u4214558@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20030106173705.GP1386@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 24 On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:40:26AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > It is the ultimate in hypocrisy to ask others for something you aren't > willing to do yourself. I, for one, will remind you of this every time > you bring up GNU/Linux in this list. > > These two cases are similar, but not in the way you think. In both > cases a large structure that is basically GNU or of GNU has a > component that is Linux or of Linux. > > So why do we treat them differently? In general, there's no ethical > obligation to cite each and every component of a larger structure in > the structure's name. Great. So not only is there no legal need to cite GNU in the Linux name, there is no ethical obligation either. Thanks for clearing that up. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/