[Gllug] Hypothetical GPL question

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 9 Oct 2001, Simon Stewart wrote:
>I seem to recall one of the major graphics chipset vendors released a
>deliberately obfucated XFree driver, much to the discontent of the
>community. There was precious little anyone could do about it,
>though, because a) the company didn't _have_ to make the source
>available and b) the source _was_ there and readable.

[It was, of course, the idiots at nvidia.]

What people did do about it was reject the driver as a useful free
driver, just as they would have done if it had been binary-only; so
this supposed 'loophole' in the GPL made no difference at all to what
people could do about it.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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