Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 03:21:11 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000517032110.G13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000516160738.75644A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:16:07PM -0500 References: <20000517023312.B13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000516160738.75644A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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> > It is *already* out there under version 2. Nobody will be *forced* to > > reissue it under version 3. If Microsoft did do what you say, it > > would be no worse than if they took BSD code and put their own license > > on it -- they can't take back the earlier license from people who > > already received it. It will not stop people distributing existing > > versions, developing them further under GPL 2, and *not* putting GPL 3 > > on it. > > Yes. Of course. But the rhetoric around the GPL is that it means the > software is always free, and something like this simply can't happen. > Clearly, under the language that stuff gets licensed under, it could. Ah, the rhetoric is a different matter. Of course it can happen. It can also happen that the courts rule some aspect of the GPL invalid.... R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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