[Fwd: Re: Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a Good Thing [tm]]

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Tue May 18 19:12:50 UTC 2004


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 ;)
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