On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jeffrey Watts wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
Again, the GPL applies to source releases just as much as binary releases. Whether they distribute binary or source, they still need to abide by the law.
You sir confuse "law" with "copyright".
Copyright exists only as being a law.
Any infringement nVidia does is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
Whether civil or criminal is irrelevant: it is still in violation of the law.
if you check your history you'd find that in the past these kinds of compromises were made all the time. Do you think that GCC was developed on a Free Unix? Do you think that Linux was originally developed on a Free Unix? There are many other examples.
Both of your examples are migrating from non-free to free. This situation is the exact opposite: free toward non-free.