Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:15:58 +0300 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000515131558.61220@techunix.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20000515112415.A28842@mithrandr.moria.org>; from Neil Blakey-Milner on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:24:15AM %2B0200 References: <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> <001801bfbe09$ced4d120$021d85d1@youwant.to> <20000515100959.57288@techunix.technion.ac.il> <20000515125628.A48320@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000515112415.A28842@mithrandr.moria.org>
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You, Neil Blakey-Milner, were spotted writing this on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:24:15AM +0200: > 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? It was stated that you, the author, didn't have a choice, and could not use the GPL (without modifying it) and avoid allowing your users to choose a later version. That statement was not true. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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