From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 19:46:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39CED37B417 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8788 invoked by uid 3130); 31 Jan 2002 03:46:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:46:22 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney To: Terry Lambert Cc: Peter Wemm , Garance A Drosihn , Alfred Perlstein , Poul-Henning Kamp , Jordan Hubbard , Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <20020131034622.GA63522@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20020131025121.308C13A9A@overcee.wemm.org> <3C58BC92.44F5ED37@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C58BC92.44F5ED37@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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