Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:13:41 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: "Neil Blakey-Milner" <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <002601bfbec3$35b3a8d0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <20000515212605.C16481@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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> It is true, however, that most authors choose to include the "later > version" line. That's in case of possible legal problems with the > GPLv2 which may be fixed in v3. The point is, it is *their* choice, > not Stallman's. If I wanted to distribute some software under only > the GPL v2, I can, but if some day a hole is poked in the GPL in court > and a GPL3 exists by that time, I probably won't get much help from > the FSF. Kindly present one shred of evidence that one has permission to use the GPL in this manner. What you are forgetting is that the GPL is a piece of intellectual property and the "How To Apply These Terms To Your New Programs" is the license agreement. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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