From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 1: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6802F37B699 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 01:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA58100; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:00:40 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:00:40 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: David Schwartz Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Anatoly Vorobey , Neil Blakey-Milner , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <002b01bfbec5$73ca0f40$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 May 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > > > 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. > This can't be true. If this were true, teh perl dual licence under GPL and asrtistic would not be possible. > DS > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message