Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 11:24:15 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000515112415.A28842@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000515125628.A48320@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 12:56:28PM %2B0530 References: <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> <001801bfbe09$ced4d120$021d85d1@youwant.to> <20000515100959.57288@techunix.technion.ac.il> <20000515125628.A48320@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Mon 2000-05-15 (12:56), Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > In fact this kind of head-in-the-sand misinformation about the GPL, > which is so common in the BSD world, is why I didn't want to get into > the argument again. This is not the only kind of misinformation: > people also keep alleging that the GPL forces you to give your program > to anyone who asks for it, and so on. Nobody who's read the GPL can > believe such things, and it's not worth arguing with people who haven't. Now, I don't want to spark off another debate, and I've been pressing ^D to kill this thread repeatedly, but reading your statement, I don't see how what was said was 'head-in-the-sand misinformation'. It seems pretty obvious that the mutt COPYING file does indeed say that you can use GPL version 2, or later, at your discretion. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a COPYING file that doesn't have the 'or later'. Where was the misinformation? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner License Debator In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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