On 12/20/06, Pamela Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The GPL is a copyright license. That means it isn't required to do what
copyright law says. In fact, it does not. It adds freedoms that
copyright law would take away.  To compare it, then, with fair use, a
component of copyright law, is useless.  If the license says you can do
it, you can, despite copyright law.  Similarly, if it says you can't,
you can't, no matter what copyright law says, if you wish to retain your
  GPL freedoms and don't wish to be sued.

Exactly.  Nvidia can distribute binary-only drivers all day long while
claiming it's fair use...  so long as they don't care about being
GPL-compliant.  So long as they don't need / want the extra freedoms
provided by the GPL.  That's a fairly big question...  does Nvidia
make significant use of Linux (I assume they must - it's kind of hard
to hack a Linux kernel driver otherwise, although technically
possible).  Can we document it?

BTW...  thanks for the clarification PJ.  :)

--tim
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