Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] > the GPL is voluntary. Go to doctor, Hyman.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt "... you MUST give the recipients ... You MUST make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code ... you MUST show them these terms ... any patent MUST be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all ... You MUST cause the modified files ... You MUST cause any work ... you MUST cause it, when started running for such interactive use ... the distribution of the whole MUST be on the terms of this License ... If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously YOUR OBLIGATIONS under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all." How on earth could you call all that "voluntary" (my dictionary: "acting or done of one's own free will without valuable consideration or legal obligation")? To doctor, to doctor you should go, Hyman. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
