Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:42:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software? Message-ID: <200105251842.LAA12049@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010525005922.04754280@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at May 25, 2001 01:00:04 AM
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> >This confirms my impression that when you read something, you think it > >means whatever you want it to mean. He didn't give consent for > >modification, only for redistribution. > > He said that he was granting permission for "use" in source form. One > of the uses of source is to create derivative works. Yes. This is where most GPL stuff falls apart, since the GPL effectively redefines "use" to be "utilize". The UCB license doesn't have all the long-winded clauses which do that: when the UCB license says "use", it meand "use". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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