Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:09:46 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000515210946.009676c0@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <002301bfbec0$ec53b3d0$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <20000515100959.57288@techunix.technion.ac.il>
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At 15:57 15-05-2000 -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> The GPL is someone's intellectual property. If you wish to use it, you must
>use it according to the terms by which it was licensed to you. If you don't
>have permission to use the GPL with such modifications, you are not
>permitted to do so.
Indeed, he expressly prohibits such modifications:
>
> GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>
> Version 2, June 1991
>
>Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave,
> Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Everyone
>is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license
> document, but changing it is not allowed.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It is an all or nothing proposition. You either go with GPL all the way, or
you don't use it at all.
Adam
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