Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:01:09 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>, "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000515235734.042edbf0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000515210946.009676c0@mail85.pair.com> References: <002301bfbec0$ec53b3d0$021d85d1@youwant.to> <20000515100959.57288@techunix.technion.ac.il>
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At 08:09 PM 5/15/2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >At 15:57 15-05-2000 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > The GPL is someone's intellectual property. If you wish to use it, you must > >use it according to the terms by which it was licensed to you. If you don't > >have permission to use the GPL with such modifications, you are not > >permitted to do so. > >Indeed, he expressly prohibits such modifications: > > > > > GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE > > > > Version 2, June 1991 > > > >Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, > > Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Everyone > >is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license > > document, but changing it is not allowed. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >It is an all or nothing proposition. You either go with GPL all the way, or >you don't use it at all. Interesting! Stallman frequently states that he wants anyone to be able to tinker with anyone's intellectual property and that the whole concept of such property is fundamentally wrong. (He even stated, in an interview in BYTE, s that to prevent someone from modifying it is "sabotage.") Yet here, he not only claims a copyright but attempts to prohibit modifications and the creation of derivative works. Hypocrisy. --Brett Glass Used to be businesses sold products. Now they just sell themselves. -- David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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