Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:16:43 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Incompatibility of the GPL (was: Use/Utilize) Message-ID: <20020410231643.B42241@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <crbscrxnzv.scr_-_@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:06:12PM -0700 References: <3CB2733E.F98DD29B@mindspring.com> <20020409132012.F48437@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB3737A.1551931@mindspring.com> <20020410043451.GA1013@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB3DF33.5B677641@mindspring.com> <20020410073309.GA279@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB41997.214F408C@mindspring.com> <20020410130629.A16154@lpt.ens.fr> <3CB424E4.629016E0@mindspring.com> <crbscrxnzv.scr_-_@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary W. Swearingen said on Apr 10, 2002 at 14:06:12: > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes: > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > But the people who should be worried are the people who are writing > > > code mixing the two licences; they should read those licences first, > > > and then there will be no doubt about the meaning. > > > > Yes, no doubt: it is not possible to comply with both licenses > > simultaneously because of section 6 of the GPL, which requires > > that you perform an act for which the right has not been granted > > (or assigned by license) to you by the copyright holder: relicensing > > the code under the GPL. > > No, there's always plenty of doubt about licenses; even the BSDL and > certainly the GPL and this issue of compatibility. In passing, let me point out that the quoting removed my context, which was the usage of the phrase "free software" in the GPL. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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