begin Oliver Kurth quotation:
--*snip*--
You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't
try to claim you wrote it.
--*snip*--
An interesting side-anecdote. I was talking to Bradley Kuhn
last year sometime, and he says the FSF's folks had to laugh and agree
From: Mark Kilgard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
An an open bug against GLUT regarding the license? That is so
Richard-Stallman-open-source-zealot-idiotic. You have a bug against
a licensee? Funniest thing I heard all day.
So I realize that this message shows a lack of courtesy
begin Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho quotation:
I would advice against anyone using the GPL for documentation. For
example, if I print and photocopy a GPL'd document and give the
copies to my students, I must also give them machine-readable
source. This is a major nuisance.
Or a written
begin Branden Robinson quotation:
[...]
+formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats include PostScript,
+PDF, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by
+proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
processing tools are not generally available,
begin Nick Moffitt quotation:
I am disappointed that PostScript is considered an opaque
format. It is a plain ASCII vector and text description format,
though opaque bitmaps may be included. There exist Free utilities for
the manipulation of EPS and PS images for those who do
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation:
I assume you are saying that Tomcat/Apache and Debian become one
program at this point?
You don't even remember the original question, do you?
No, to clarify to those whom you might confuse:
Tomcat, apache, debian, all separate programs, and
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation:
If the FSF site is running Debian/GNU linux with BSD software I
don't see any problem...
I believe you misunderstand the GPL.
--
The only thing is certain: Russian petty computer hooligans are very
slovenly, while FBI agents are very persistent in
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation:
Nick Moffitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation:
If the FSF site is running Debian/GNU linux with BSD software I
don't see any problem...
I believe you misunderstand the GPL.
... well you can't just make a statement
begin Walter Landry quotation:
I also don't see a (legal) problem with GPL programs that just move
unfree data around. Otherwise cp would have serious use
restrictions. However, cp doesn't contain within itself the unfree
data. The keyspan drivers do.
Debian distributes Apache,
begin Craig Sanders quotation:
for fun (and the chance to win an all expenses paid vacation to a
maximum security cell block), the script could sign the
notificiation message as Mr T. Errorist, Libya :-)
I pity da foo'.
--
You are not entitled to your opinions.
01234567 -
begin John Galt quotation:
I know that serious consideration of anything over one line (hence
your prediliction for the one-line dismissal of anyone who you have
had disagreements with in the past) is beyond your skills, but
please don't remind me of it
Perhaps your time would be
begin Colin Watson quotation:
that clause is there to allow GNU systems to be legally built on
systems with proprietary C libraries and such, which was the
situation before things like the Linux (and later GNU) C Library
were written.
The Linux libc up until version 5 was based on
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation:
Unfortunetly, it's not consistent with many of the non-DFSG-free
licenses. You'd be violating licenses if you did this with many of
the packages in non-free, so if you want to do it for any of those,
you should take a look at the license first. (Because of
begin Chris Lawrence quotation:
There are no provisions of the XFree license that stop XFree code from
being aggregated with GPLed code (the result being GPLed).
The problem isn't aggregation. Any license that covers
aggregation is in violation of DFSG 9.
The problem is the
Quoting Martin Schulze:
Ah, interesting, I was informed a couple of days ago. Anyway, if
I'm not mistaken the Crusoe Processor from Transmeta has a similar
logo as well.
Everybody and his dog as a spiral for a logo. Dreamcast,
Sybase, you name it.
Of course, if it's a
Quoting Yann Dirson:
* The sentence `You also indicate your acceptance by retaining the
Module on your computer for more than one day.' may have strange
interactions with the download of (eg.) a precompiled binary package
from debian.org/.../non-free/ - the downloader may get a large bunch
of
The reason why the GPL does not allow changes is because of
the line or, at your option, any later version that appears in the
standard notice when an author puts a work under the GPL. It is
designed specifically to keep people from putting out a new version of
the GPL that might then
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