Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:46:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:46:02 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:12455 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:46:02 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: mark@mark.mielke.cc CC: root@chaos.analogic.com, pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil, R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl, jalvo@mbay.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20030113175107.GA7770@mark.mielke.cc> (message from Mark Mielke on Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:51:07 -0500) Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <200301131109.48727.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> <20030113175107.GA7770@mark.mielke.cc> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:54:52 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Heck, even glibc was not used by most distributions before a few years ago. Most or all GNU/Linux distributions in 1993 used a modified version of GNU libc. They called it "Linux libc", so you might not have realized it was actually GNU libc modified. We wanted GNU libc to work unmodified in GNU/Linux systems, so we paid the original author of GNU libc to do the necessary work. The result was GNU libc version 2. - 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/