Erik Funkenbusch <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:43:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >>> Funny, but even YOU don't seem to understand the GPL that nobody could >>> possibly misunderstand. Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't understand >>> it. >> >> Or maybe you don't have a clue what "outside its scope" means. The FSF >> is talking about the applicability of copyright law. The contents of >> the GPL are not at issue here. > > The GPL is useless without copyright law. The two are entertwined. You > cannot understand the GPL without understanding copyright law, thus the > "contents fo the GPL" includes copyright law, because the GPL is a > "derivitive work" of it. > >> Absolutely the same scope problem occurs >> for the BSD license. > > But since the BSD license enforces no restrictions on you, other than > leaving copyright clauses in the source code and not sueing them, and does > not depend on the definition of "derivitive work" in copyright law, the BSD > license does not have the same problems. > >>> Actually, no. The GPL says nothing about charging for the license. >> >> Huh? Check out chapter 6 in the current GPL version, and search for the >> string "at no". There are about 4 instances or so of that, where "at no >> further charge" and its equivalent are mentioned. Chapter 6 is about >> conveying binaries, and it makes repeatedly clear that access and >> license to the source code then have to be provided without additional >> charge. > > I'm speaking about GPLv2. v3 with all it's "conveyance" crap is even > worse, but I don't know it well enough to comment much on it. > >>> You cannot understand the GPL without understanding the wider chaos of >>> copyright law. That's why the GPL is not easy to understand. >> >> Since that applies to any license, it's disingenuous to blame the GPL >> for that specifically. > > I'm not. I'm blaming the people that say it's impossible to misunderstand > the GPL.
Surely they are not still claiming that after being proven to not understand it themselves in this very thread? -- In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you’re linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. — Dennis Miller _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
