On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:23, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:50:13PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > > of these two cases would be (2)(c) cases. Recall that (2)(c) says, > > "...when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary > > way, to print or display an announcement ..." Apache is started in the > > most ordinary way via the apachectl or /etc/init.d/apache scripts. A > > PHPNuke is started in exactly the same way on most systems. In fact, that > very command starts it. I'm confused about the distinction.
OK, then I see no problem with PHPNuke doing the same thing. > > Interestingly, I don't think (2)(c) would forbid a modified PHPNuke to > > print the copyright notice to a printer (or console) in the server room, > > instead of on the web page the user sees. The more I look at the > > clause, the more convinced I am that its sole purpose is to torture me. > > Heh, I think more than just you are being tortured :-) > > This would be a quite workable solution, and one that I find a lot more > difficult to argue with. One can still debate the interactivity, but the > key is that the act of distribution is now moved elsewhere to the > conventional ways, which makes a lot more sense to me. Distribution does not, and has never, mattered (see previous message in this thread). > > I have a hard time figuring out what that purpose is, at this point. > > Could you ask one of the people that drafted that (Stallman?) on our behalf? I would rather propose to him improved wording for GPLv3. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson