From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 22 4:44:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sandminer.com.au (unknown [203.43.89.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDE510E64 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:44:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from supervoc@wingdriver.com.au) Received: from localhost (supervoc@localhost) by sandminer.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA00526; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:38:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from supervoc@wingdriver.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: sandminer.com.au: supervoc owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:38:07 +1100 (EST) From: "^'*'^" X-Sender: supervoc@sandminer.com.au To: "" Nando Augusto 95r "" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Common Question In-Reply-To: <36D08522.35D5B975@iname.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 21 Feb 1999,  Nando Augusto 95r  wrote: } What's GPL? see http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html to see what GPL is really all about.. however, according to the jargon file: == :General Public Virus: /n./ Pejorative name for some versions of the {GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL), which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same counter-commercial terms as GNU stuff. Thus it is alleged that the copyleft `infects' software generated with GNU tools, which may in turn infect other software that reuses any of its code. The Free Software Foundation's official position as of January 1991 is that copyright law limits the scope of the GPL to "programs textually incorporating significant amounts of GNU code", and that the `infection' is not passed on to third parties unless actual GNU source is transmitted (as in, for example, use of the Bison parser skeleton). Nevertheless, widespread suspicion that the {copyleft} language is `boobytrapped' has caused many developers to avoid using GNU tools and the GPL. Recent (July 1991) changes in the language of the version 2.00 license may eliminate this problem. == go to your favourite search engine (www.locate.com if you don't know any), look up "jargon file", and grab yourself a copy for all sorts of interesting acronyms. -SV7- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message