On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > > Therefore, the distribution of all GPLed software is, at least in > > the U.S., forbidden by the terms of the GPL, and should come to a > > screeching halt. I have spoken. > > This is a logical fallcay. I fail to recall tht exact term. But the > rule is this:- > > Statement 1:- X implies Y > Statement 2:- Y implies Z > > Statement 1 and 2 does not mean that X implies Z.
AFAIK, it does under normal/traditional logic laws. Implication is transitive: If X implies Y and Y implies Z, then X implies Z. However, my understanding is that there is no consensus on this list that X implies Y or that Y implies Z. Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
