From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 11:14:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (ftp.webmaster.com [209.10.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E5F37B9D2 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:13:38 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Narvi" Cc: "Rahul Siddharthan" , "Anatoly Vorobey" , "Neil Blakey-Milner" , Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:14:46 -0700 Message-ID: <002701bfbf62$9dbb9600$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. Since the artistic license is not a modified GPL, your reply is a non-sequiter. You should also note that any contributions to perl submitted under the GPL cannot be added to the artistic license version. You would be right if the person who dual-licensed perl in the first place had the ability to maintain the dual license. For example, if RMS permitted him to add a clause that said that if anybody released contributions to the GPL-licensed version, they implicitly agree to allow those changes to be distributed with the artistic license version. But since this is not the case, the two licenses are completely independent and the two versions could lead different lives. One doesn't modify or change the other. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message