From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 10 14:16:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E2837B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g3ALGha68493 ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:16:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id XAA48398 ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:16:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:16:43 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incompatibility of the GPL (was: Use/Utilize) Message-ID: <20020410231643.B42241@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3CB2733E.F98DD29B@mindspring.com> <20020409132012.F48437@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB3737A.1551931@mindspring.com> <20020410043451.GA1013@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB3DF33.5B677641@mindspring.com> <20020410073309.GA279@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB41997.214F408C@mindspring.com> <20020410130629.A16154@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB424E4.629016E0@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: ; from swear@blarg.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:06:12PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Gary W. Swearingen said on Apr 10, 2002 at 14:06:12: > Terry Lambert writes: > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > But the people who should be worried are the people who are writing > > > code mixing the two licences; they should read those licences first, > > > and then there will be no doubt about the meaning. > > > > Yes, no doubt: it is not possible to comply with both licenses > > simultaneously because of section 6 of the GPL, which requires > > that you perform an act for which the right has not been granted > > (or assigned by license) to you by the copyright holder: relicensing > > the code under the GPL. > > No, there's always plenty of doubt about licenses; even the BSDL and > certainly the GPL and this issue of compatibility. In passing, let me point out that the quoting removed my context, which was the usage of the phrase "free software" in the GPL. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message