Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:04:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <3CB213EF.C1AD30FF@mindspring.com> References: <20020405183857.GA58446@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> <3CAE30C6.51C811DA@mindspring.com> <20020407211321.GA223@tower.my.domain> <3CB0E88E.828850F7@mindspring.com> <20020408123111.GA65569@oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
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Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I can assure you I missed it. I haven't read the GPL. That doesn't make > this an example of what I was looking for. The issue at hand for me is > whether cases of use and of utilization are coextensive. If they are, > then, even if they have different meanings, I don't see how the > distinction could be very interesting legally. Whether the GPL conflates > source code and binaries is a complication unrelated to the question I > originally posed. I should have said `Ignoring the GPL for > the moment ...' Ah... somone who has studied law... ;^). On the contrary; the conflation of source and binary distribution is what makes it possible to say that one may "use" the code, but not be permitted to "utilize" the code. For a software engineer interested in code reuse, it's more important to be able to utilize the code than it is to be able to use it. But the fact that the distribution of binaries has been conflated with the distribution of source code means that I now lack the ability to put to use binary code alone, that I can not utilize the code in particular ways. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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