From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 17 23:51:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03070 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:51:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.37.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03037 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (reqd-047.ucdavis.edu [128.120.251.167]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA08613 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id HAA16946; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:51:36 GMT Message-ID: <19970217235135.LP40831@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:51:35 -0800 From: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL References: <199702180517.WAA17000@obie.softweyr.ml.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Disclaimer: Mutt Bites! Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: <199702180517.WAA17000@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Feb 17, 1997 22:17:13 -0700 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The major complaint is that it restricts the use of the software > extensively. You cannot, for instance, distribute binary-only copies of > GPL'ed software. Nor can you sell derivative works of GPL'ed software. Here is a [real life] question for you. Say someone has written fooquix and from version 0.01 to 0.49 it was GPL'ed. Then they decided they wanted to make some $$$ from it. So the next release (say 0.50) was binary only. Now obiviously 0.50 is derived work based on the GPL'ed code of 0.49. Is this allowable, or once software is under GLP it stays there? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)