Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:27:50 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <002a01bfbec5$2faec1c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <20000516044511.B8613@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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> What it does not say is what you may do if the Program specifies > a version number of this License and "no other version", or even > a version number of the license without further qualification. > I think the omission is either deliberate, because he didn't want > to encourage it, or unintentional, but there is no ambiguity > legally. If you specify that the GPL version 2, and only that > version, applies to the program, that's the end of the matter. He doesn't just not encourage it, he doesn't _allow_ it. The GPL is _owned_. You may only use and distribute it in ways that you are specifically permitted to. Produce a statement saying that people are free to use the GPL in ways other than those it specifically permits. You cannot do it. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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