From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 16:14:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (ftp.webmaster.com [209.10.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A94437B926 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 16:13:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 15 May 2000 16:12:34 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" , "Anatoly Vorobey" Cc: "Neil Blakey-Milner" , Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:13:41 -0700 Message-ID: <002601bfbec3$35b3a8d0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <20000515212605.C16481@physics.iisc.ernet.in> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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