From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 14:17:59 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 4B4BC37BB62 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 14:17:53 -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 14:16:44 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: "Anatoly Vorobey" , Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:17:52 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bfbf7c$31d2ed20$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: <20000517023516.C13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 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. The GPL states: "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms. To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. Copyright (C) 19yy This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA" That's how the GPL permits you to use it. This part of the GPL is no more optional than any other part of it. Again, far from a suggestion, this portion of the GPL is the only portion that grants permission to apply the GPL to your own software. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message