From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 19 15:15:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22854 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:15:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22844; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-208.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.208]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA11036; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:15:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA05775; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:53:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901190253.UAA05775@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Jacques Vidrine , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Why GPLing BSD-license code spells trouble In-reply-to: Message from Eivind Eklund of "Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:27:18 +0100." <19990119012718.C42642@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:53:11 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund writes: > You can infer from GPL section 6/8, GPL section 3 (with attention to > subclause b), and the BSD license clause 2. > > I'm not reproducing the relevant parts here, due to the extreme amount > of rambling in the GPL. Lines 6 and 7 of /usr/src/gnu/COPYING state: ] Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies ] of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. So strictly by the terms of GPL I violated it by distributing only those two lines. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message