Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently"

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 16:29:30 EST


On Wed, 08 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:

> When you take part of my statement, stretch it, interpret it based on
> assumptions you know I disagree with, and present the result as
> something I said, that doesn't prove anything. It is childish.
>
> There is no ethical obligation to mention secondary contributions
> incorporated in a large project. There ethical obligation is to cite
> the main developer. In the GNU/Linux system, the GNU Project is the
> principal contributor; the system is more GNU than anything else,
> and we started it.

You overestimate your influence. Now please go invest your energy into
something that a) is more likely to succeed, b) does not happen on this
list.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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