Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:36:12 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ambiguity, Terry-style, in the BSDL (was Re: Use/Utilize) Message-ID: <20020410123612.H8263@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020410110703.A29767@chiark.greenend.org.uk>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:07:03AM %2B0100 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> <20020410110703.A29767@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Selected meanings, from Terry's 1913 Webster when available, otherwise
from the Merriam-Webster site.
The BSDL says:
"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:"
"Redistribution": (Merriam-Webster)
1 : To alter the distribution of; reallocate
"use": Already discussed ad nauseam, but (Webster 1913)
8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L. opus need,
business, employment, work. Cf. Operate.] (Law) The benefit or profit
of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in
a man for the holding of lands.
"source" (Webster 1913)
2. The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or
the like; a spring; a fountain.
"binary" (Webster 1913)
Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by
two (things)
"permitted" (Merriam-Webster)
3 : to make possible
"condition" (Webster 1913)
1. Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external
circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity,
health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
"met", imp. and p.p. of "meet" (Webster 1913)
1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by
approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to
front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
So according to the BSDL: "Reallocation and benefit or profit of land
and tenements, in the form of a spring or fountain or in two parts, with or
without modification, are made possible provided that one comes in
contact with the following modes or states of being:"
[Translating the conditions into Terry-speak is an exercise for the reader.]
- Rahul
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