Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:46:22 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <20020131034622.GA63522@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <3C58BC92.44F5ED37@mindspring.com> References: <20020131025121.308C13A9A@overcee.wemm.org> <3C58BC92.44F5ED37@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:40:02PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Nope. Nobody says you have to maintain it. Besides, FreeBSD isn't going > > to run on any system so obscure that it wont have some sort of ansi > > compiler available any time in the forseeable future. > > Oops; three years, not two. Please read section 3(b) of the GPL > at: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > distributing source code is not the same as maintaining it. the section you're refering to is: "Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or," this doesn't say anything other than you have to provide the source code. i fail to see how you get 'maintain' from this. -garrett -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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