From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 23:40: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from techunix.technion.ac.il (techunix.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1207337BD4D for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 23:39:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@techunix.technion.ac.il) Received: by techunix.technion.ac.il (Postfix, from userid 14309) id B370F865D; Sun, 14 May 2000 09:39:34 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:39:34 +0300 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net>; from Thomas M. Sommers on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:32:27AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You, Thomas M. Sommers, were spotted writing this on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:32:27AM -0400: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > > > The > > > > "party" has full control over it. The "party" can even change the license > > > > in the future to whatever it wants, without the author having any say. > > > > > > This is not grounded in fact. If I release a piece of software under > > > GPL, you are *not* free to change the license; in fact, this lack of > > > freedom is what is so aggravating about GPL to BSD people in the first > > > place! What are you smoking? > > > > I think he's referring to the "copying" file distributed with many > > GPL software, saying that you may distribute it under the GPL version 2, > > or "at your discretion, any later version". That is a choice of the > > author, who apparently trusts the FSF not to make undesirable changes > > to the GPL, but it is not necessary. > > It is not the choice of the author, but rather the choice of the user. It is the choice of the author to use the words "GPL version 2 (or any later version) applies to this software" or "GPL version 2, and solely that version, applies to this software", or nothing (which implies the earlier choice). The author has the choice. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message