From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 16:35:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CF3C37B921 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 16:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 61863 invoked from network); 15 May 2000 23:35:33 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 15 May 2000 23:35:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 8702 invoked by uid 211); 15 May 2000 23:35:31 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 05:05:30 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Schwartz Cc: Anatoly Vorobey , Neil Blakey-Milner , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000516050530.E8613@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000516045301.C8613@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <002b01bfbec5$73ca0f40$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <002b01bfbec5$73ca0f40$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from davids@webmaster.com on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:29:44PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. You are neither modifying it nor adding a clause. You are distributing your software under it. As long as you don't specify otherwise, it is assumed that this is the license which applies. Even if you specify that explicitly, that doesn't say anything new. If you say "you may also use a later version" *then* you are adding a clause. But the GPL explicitly permits that particular clause (it does *not* insist on it, it only covers that possibility) so it's ok to make that requirement. But if, for instance, you said "you may use version 2 or version 3 but no later version", that is not explicitly covered in the GPL so your point would be valid... R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message