[Fwd: Re: Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a Good Thing [tm]]
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue May 18 19:50:25 UTC 2004
On May 18, 2004, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:08, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On May 18, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
>>
>> > If this is true, then it should be considered a bug. I'll investigate
>> > later...
>>
>> You're not required to accept the GNU GPL to run the code. The GNU
>> GPL explicitly says that anything but copying, distribution and
>> modification are outside of its scope, and that the act of running the
>> program is not restricted.
> Well in most of Europe, copying the binary code from disk to ram or from
> ram to CPU is distributing as explicit part of copyright law ;)
distributing? I could understand copying, but distributing?!?
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