begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:23:32AM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >>Yeah, it intuitively seems wrong.
Did I screw up and delete an extra attribution? I didn't write that. > >[snip] > > > >Why? > > > >Especially, why _intuitively_? > > Let me rephrase. Modifying GPL'd (or LGPL'd) code without releasing > changes seems as though it goes against the spirit of the license. That may be, but the language is couched in terms of giving the _user_ rights, not the developers. The user has the right to modify the code, and the right (not the requirement) to distribute it. *Making* the user release their modifications would reduce the user's rights, not increase 'em. > By using intuitively, I was stressing that it was more of a gut feeling > than anything that could be backed up by facts. Huh. And I think of "intuitive" as meaning more like "self-evident". > >I think this might be a crabs-in-a-pot kind of thinking. > > Crabs-in-a-pot? Crabs don't let other crabs get out of the pot. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
