Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:52:48 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Narvi" <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <000001bfbf78$b1b345c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000516215600.5152U-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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> On Tue, 16 May 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > The perl licence is an aggregate licence > > 'Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic > License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in > the Perl 5.0 source kit. ' > > This is something (GPL + other conditions/allowances/claims prefixing it) > you have claimed not possible. And it's not. The GPL is someone's property, and permission to use the GPL in this manner has not been granted on a blanket basis. The GPL does state: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." But this does not grant permission to apply the GPL to your works however you please. As far as I can tell, the only such grant is contained in the "How to Apply These Terms to your New Programs" sections, which doesn't permit this. If you can find something specific that permits this, please cite it. Otherwise, perl's use of the GPL is as much a violation of its terms as Linux's use. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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