On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Sanjeev Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > LL, we meet again! > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 03:24, Linux Lingam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 1 April 2012, I propose to launch version 3.1416 of GPL, >> which adds one condition to GPL: >> >> 5) Software published under this new version of GPL is free-of-cost >> to those who demonstrate, adopt, and share an understanding of freedom, >> as detailed in the evaluation-process of YoYo Dyne Interactive. > > Sorry to spoil the fun (as always), but the GPL is Copyright, not Copyleft, > FSF. They take a very dim view (verging on hostile) to people amending the > GPL. Fear the wrath of Stallman, my friend.
even on the launch-date of my proposed version, which is 1 April, and its donald-knuth inspired version number? > > The GPL _applies_ to "copyleft", but the _GPL_ text itself is not even close > to a CC-SA, etc. In particular, the text of the GPL itself is not released > under the GPL (which has caused generations of Debian guys to pull out their > hair, and recursively shoot themselves. it's verbatim license. from the original documentation licenses. n > > -- > Sanjeev Gupta > +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
