From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 23 13:24:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A851D1538D for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:24:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11qNPm-000Goy-00; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:23:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA61353; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:23:54 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:23:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Terry Lambert Cc: rdls@jezebel.demon.co.uk, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL In-Reply-To: <199911231902.MAA02665@usr06.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: >Actually, it can restrict the original copyright holder from >integrating patches sent to him by people whose access to the >code was the result of them obtaining it via GPL, since the >patches are derivative of the GPL'ed work. If the product is distributed in source code anyway, how does this make a difference? Won't the improvements be incorporated one way or the other? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message