> For developers, I think the GPL matters very much. It introduces > fairness in the contribution process - companies and individuals > can contribute code knowing that it can't be taken away and locked > up, to be modified, sold and distributed as binary packages > (eg. Nvidia).
Note that this discussion (part of which occurred off-list) didn't resolve the question of whether Nvidia did or didn't do that: nobody's been able to figure out what the Nvidia package in question does.
