Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Hyman Rosen wrote: > >> the GPL is voluntary. > > How on earth could you call all that "voluntary" > > Because no one is forced to accept those conditions. > They choose them voluntarily as the cost of copying and > distributing the code. It is voluntary in exactly the > same way as paying for MS Office - you don't have to buy > it if you don't want to.
You confuse various concepts, Hyman. Would you call a "condition" to pay as in "The Court will retain jurisdiction to enforce the payment terms of the settlement for a period of thirty (30) days." (see my previous message) voluntary as well? 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
