From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 12:27: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90FA137BAEE for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 12:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 71620 invoked from network); 16 May 2000 19:26:34 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 16 May 2000 19:26:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 22475 invoked by uid 211); 16 May 2000 19:26:33 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:56:33 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Schwartz Cc: Anatoly Vorobey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000517005633.B22400@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000516044511.B8613@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <002a01bfbec5$2faec1c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <002a01bfbec5$2faec1c0$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from davids@webmaster.com on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:27:50PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For the record, this is what RMS says. He doesn't exactly answer my question (I had made it clear that I'm not asking whether it is desirable, only whether it's allowed), but from the tone of his answer I would imagine that it is not prohibited to do this, merely a "bad idea". I've found that when one has a serious doubt about the GPL or his intentions behind it, the simplest thing to do is to ask him: he always replies. Moreover, he is genuinely concerned about clearing up misconceptions (like the suggestion that he opposes using the LGPL for all future libraries). The trouble (as with many other controversial people) is that people prefer to trust second hand information rather than read his writings directly and understand what he's saying. From: Richard Stallman To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: GPL question Is it ok to license one's software under "version 2 of the GPL, and only that version"? It is a bad idea, because when we have GPL version 3 and release other programs under version 3, your program will be stuck at GPL version 2. And it will be illegal to copy code between your program and all the other GPL-covered programs that are released under GPL version 3. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message