From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 16:28:13 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 CC8B737B95F for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 16:28:06 -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 16:26:43 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: "Anatoly Vorobey" , Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:27:50 -0700 Message-ID: <002a01bfbec5$2faec1c0$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: <20000516044511.B8613@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 > What it does not say is what you may do if the Program specifies > a version number of this License and "no other version", or even > a version number of the license without further qualification. > I think the omission is either deliberate, because he didn't want > to encourage it, or unintentional, but there is no ambiguity > legally. If you specify that the GPL version 2, and only that > version, applies to the program, that's the end of the matter. He doesn't just not encourage it, he doesn't _allow_ it. The GPL is _owned_. You may only use and distribute it in ways that you are specifically permitted to. Produce a statement saying that people are free to use the GPL in ways other than those it specifically permits. You cannot do it. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message