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SubjectRe: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers?
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Shane,

> I think it is important to remember that copyright law was not designed to
> make you or anyone else "rich". Copyright law is concerned with
> promoting societies progress.
>
> Shane
If you had written this a hundred years ago, it might have been more true.
The fact is, in the US anyway, copyright law has become totally
unrecognisable to what the Founding Fathers meant it to be.

Matthew D. Pitts

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