From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 10 3: 8:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.22.195.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527EF37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16vF0J-00082u-00 (Debian); Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:07:03 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:07:03 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: Terry Lambert Cc: Tony Finch , Rahul Siddharthan , Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <20020410110703.A29767@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <20020406171612.A17530@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CAF79CA.CB4D14B8@mindspring.com> <20020409032852.A30794@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CB26F97.A45B9ADF@mindspring.com> <20020409121348.A30147@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CB37330.2FE5A835@mindspring.com> <20020410015707.A13007@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <3CB396B8.510C3CC6@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CB396B8.510C3CC6@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:34:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:34:48PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Tony Finch wrote: > > but the GPL doesn't use the word "use" in the context of the > > preparation of derivative works; it only uses it as a synonym > > for "run" (except outside the T&Cs). > > Preamble. The preamble is not part of the terms and conditions and so should be ignored when considering what the licence means. There seems little point in complaining about ambiguity in informal language. Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message