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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 10:00:40 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000516095957.5152P-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <002b01bfbec5$73ca0f40$021d85d1@youwant.to>

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On Mon, 15 May 2000, David Schwartz wrote:

> 
> > You can take the GPL, bundle it with your code, and say "this
> > program may be distributed under version 2 of the GPL, and under no
> > other license and no other version of the GPL."  Nothing in the GPL
> > stops you from doing that.
> >
> > R.
> 
> 	No you can't do that, since you don't have permission to. The law regarding
> copyright is not that you can do anything you aren't specifically prohibited
> from doing. You may only do what you are specifically allowed to do.
> 
> 	The GPL would be worthless if people could preface it with any clauses they
> wanted to that modified its terms in any way they wanted. The instructions
> for how to apply the GPL to your own code _IS_ the distribution agreement.
> It is the only document that grants you the right to distribute the GPL.
> 

This can't be true. If this were true, teh perl dual licence under GPL and
asrtistic would not be possible.

> 	DS
> 



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