From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 14: 5:27 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 34A9137BB95 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 14:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 72834 invoked from network); 16 May 2000 21:05:18 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 16 May 2000 21:05:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 13207 invoked by uid 211); 16 May 2000 21:05:16 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 02:35:16 +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: <20000517023516.C13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000517005633.B22400@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <000701bfbf77$f2159f60$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000701bfbf77$f2159f60$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from davids@webmaster.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:47:27PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha 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". > > First of all, what RMS says (other than him specifically granting > permission for people to do things) is irrelevant. His opinion of the GPL > holds no more legal force than anybody else's opinion. All right. So please point me a single paragraph in the GPL which tells you that you must agree to allow replacing the GPL v2 by any future version. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message