Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:00:40 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000516095957.5152P-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <002b01bfbec5$73ca0f40$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On Mon, 15 May 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > > > You can take the GPL, bundle it with your code, and say "this > > program may be distributed under version 2 of the GPL, and under no > > other license and no other version of the GPL." Nothing in the GPL > > stops you from doing that. > > > > R. > > No you can't do that, since you don't have permission to. The law regarding > copyright is not that you can do anything you aren't specifically prohibited > from doing. You may only do what you are specifically allowed to do. > > The GPL would be worthless if people could preface it with any clauses they > wanted to that modified its terms in any way they wanted. The instructions > for how to apply the GPL to your own code _IS_ the distribution agreement. > It is the only document that grants you the right to distribute the GPL. > This can't be true. If this were true, teh perl dual licence under GPL and asrtistic would not be possible. > DS > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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