From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 8 19:29:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.22.195.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8693737B419 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16ulNM-0008C8-00 (Debian); Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:28:52 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 03:28:52 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: Terry Lambert Cc: Tony Finch , Rahul Siddharthan , Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <20020409032852.A30794@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <20020406171612.A17530@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CAF79CA.CB4D14B8@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CAF79CA.CB4D14B8@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:42:18PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:42:18PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Tony Finch wrote: > > Section 0 says: > > > > : Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > > : covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of > > : running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program > > : is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the > > : Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). > > : Whether that is true depends on what the Program does. > > > > This is generally true for copyright law. > > So now everyone who writes code is expected to be well read in > copyright? No, but people who argue loudly and at great length about the GPL are expected to have read the relevant parts. Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message