Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 04:13:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <3CAEE65C.90939A84@mindspring.com> References: <20020405183857.GA58446@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> <20020405231950.B63981@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAE3C62.4012DA04@mindspring.com> <20020406064529.GB1426@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAE9E85.BDEDB76C@mindspring.com> <20020406083409.GB1901@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAEDC9E.E4A5C02B@mindspring.com> <20020406115021.GB2576@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
[ ... web services example ... ]
> This is, I believe, a grey area -- when the GPL v2 was written this
> situation didn't exist. Stallman was rumoured to be addressing the
> question in a GPL v3 but I don't know what became of it. I very
> much doubt the ambiguity here is deliberate.
Obviously, he wan't to now close the loophole, given that a
reasonable interpretation of the cauge language would result
in it coming down on the "wrong" side.
> > Ah. There. Thank you. We agree to the deliberately
> > misleading use of language in the license, even if you
> > think it's limited to "free" in "libre" vs. "gratis" ("free"
> > implies "gratis"; the correct Englis word for "libre" is
> > "liberated").
>
> No; I believe that the term "free software" was chosen more for
> "resonance" reasons than for accuracy and easy comprehension; but the
> GPL, and the GNU manifesto, and all Stallman's writings, explain in
> pitiless detail what he really means. As far as the GPL is concerned
> there is no ambiguity, because it defines the meaning carefully.
> (Which, again, is a subset of the dictionary meaning, not a
> redefinition.)
And I believe it was chosen because the ambiguity serves the
purpose it was intended to serve: that it's intentional.
-- Terry
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