From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 24 7:22:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5657E37B405 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 07:22:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31790 invoked by uid 100); 24 Dec 2001 15:22:18 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15399.18473.712730.309116@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:22:17 -0600 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: dwalton@acm.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does Linux violate the GPL? In-Reply-To: <09n109t93i.109@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011223153232.4b562a74.dwalton@acm.org> <15398.28461.605242.845831@guru.mired.org> <20011223161559.0f20faa8.dwalton@acm.org> <09n109t93i.109@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary W. Swearingen types: > Dave Walton writes: > > Rats. I knew there was going to be a mistake in my wording somewhere. > > When I wrote "use", I was thinking of something along the lines of > > "incorporate and distribute". > And when Mike wrote "use" (in "Neither BSDL nor GPL place any > restrictions on *use* of the covered work."), he was apparently thinking > of something along the lines of "execute" Actually, I meant pretty much anything that doesn't include exercising a copyright. > Let's all keep in mind that source code has many uses > and using just "use" is likely to be ambiguous or just wrong. Mike's > statement (without the BSDL part) is common misleading GNU-speak used in > their propaganda. The fact is that both BSDL and GPL place restrictions > on the use of the covered work. If not, we would say the work is in the > public domain. The BSDL - as it exists in /COPYRIGHT - places no restrictions whatsoever on the use of the software if you don't exercise a copyright. It *does* place restrictions on mentioning features and use of the software - which have since been retracted - and on the use of the name of the University. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message