On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:19, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:36:18PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > > > That sounds ludicrous and farfetched to me, given that both statements, by > > > themselves, are already farfetched in this circumstance. > > > > (2)(c) concerns the act of modification. Altering the program to remove > > copyright notices is modification. This is not ludicrous nor > > farfetched. The only question. then, is whether the program is > > interactive. > > > Dictionary.com says of interactive: > > BUT -- (2)(c) ONLY takes effect if the user is distributing the source to a > modified program AND that program is intractive.
No! (2)(c) doesn't contain the first part of that -- it doesn't require distribution! See my other messages in this thread. > > 2 /Computer Science/. Of or relating to a program that responds to user > > activity. > > By that definition, Apache is interactive, as is the Linux kernel. Sure, and I don't see a problem considering them interactive. Now, I guess you could say grep responds to SIGKILL being sent, but that *does* seem far-fetched. > > <programming> A term describing a program whose input and > > output are interleaved, like a conversation, allowing the > > user's input to depend on earlier output from the same run. > > And here is depends on what is a "run". A cookie-less HTTP request would be > a run in itself. There is no interleaving there. I suppose you could claim > that a HTTP/1.1 session with keep-alives and cookies is a run, but it's > again a little farfetched. I actually think that, from an operational definition, it is a run. If I start a grep, make my laptop hibernate (presuming that functionality, (dumping the contents of RAM to disk, turning completely off, and restoring them on wake-up) were available with Free Software), wait a week, and wake it up, are there two runs? I don't think so. -- -Dave Turner GPL Compliance Engineer Support my work: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=novalis&p=FSF