Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 02:35:16 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000517023516.C13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <000701bfbf77$f2159f60$021d85d1@youwant.to>; from davids@webmaster.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:47:27PM -0700 References: <20000517005633.B22400@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <000701bfbf77$f2159f60$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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> > For the record, this is what RMS says. He doesn't exactly answer > > my question (I had made it clear that I'm not asking whether it > > is desirable, only whether it's allowed), but from the tone of his > > answer I would imagine that it is not prohibited to do this, > > merely a "bad idea". > > First of all, what RMS says (other than him specifically granting > permission for people to do things) is irrelevant. His opinion of the GPL > holds no more legal force than anybody else's opinion. All right. So please point me a single paragraph in the GPL which tells you that you must agree to allow replacing the GPL v2 by any future version. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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