From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 16:29:53 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 DD8B837B93D for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 16:29:49 -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 16:28:37 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: "Anatoly Vorobey" , "Neil Blakey-Milner" , Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:29:44 -0700 Message-ID: <002b01bfbec5$73ca0f40$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: <20000516045301.C8613@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 > You can take the GPL, bundle it with your code, and say "this > program may be distributed under version 2 of the GPL, and under no > other license and no other version of the GPL." Nothing in the GPL > stops you from doing that. > > R. No you can't do that, since you don't have permission to. The law regarding copyright is not that you can do anything you aren't specifically prohibited from doing. You may only do what you are specifically allowed to do. The GPL would be worthless if people could preface it with any clauses they wanted to that modified its terms in any way they wanted. The instructions for how to apply the GPL to your own code _IS_ the distribution agreement. It is the only document that grants you the right to distribute the GPL. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message