From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 23 16:16: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7687C37B41A for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:16:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from thinkpad770z.davidcamp.net ([216.103.90.137]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with SMTP id <0GOT005ZONERED@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:16:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:15:59 -0800 From: Dave Walton Subject: Re: Does Linux violate the GPL? In-reply-to: <15398.28461.605242.845831@guru.mired.org> To: Mike Meyer Cc: chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: dwalton@acm.org Message-id: <20011223161559.0f20faa8.dwalton@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20011223153232.4b562a74.dwalton@acm.org> <15398.28461.605242.845831@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:56:29 -0600, "Mike Meyer" wrote: > You're making the same mistake that Gary kept trying to straighten > out. Neither BSDL nor GPL place any restrictions on *use* of the > covered work. The restrictions are on distribution. So all the places > where you say "may not legally use", you really need to say "may not > legally distribute". I.e. - if I take T and add S - neither of which I > hold a copyright to - I can legally use it without violating either > license, but I can't let anyone else have a copy. Rats. I knew there was going to be a mistake in my wording somewhere. When I wrote "use", I was thinking of something along the lines of "incorporate and distribute". So if I substitute "may not legally distribute" for all instances of "may not legally use", does that remove all your objections to my statements? Thanks, Dave -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message