On 5/23/06, Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day Deepayan, > > >>>>> "DS" == Deepayan Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> I think you are still missing the point. [...]
> Quite possible, as I said early on IANAL. And these discussion really > starts to remind me too much of those that I read in > gnu.misc.discuss. Since I never participated in them, I don't see why > I should here. And that group is probably a better forum to discuss > all these issues. If some of the guys who always tried to argue that > they found a way to circumvent the GPL are still hanging around, I am > sure they are happy if you come along and confirm that according to > your understanding of the GPL eveything they are doing is o.k.. :) [...] > DS> The FSF's plan was not to produce a completely independent and > DS> fully functional 'GNU system' at once (which would be > DS> unrealistic), but rather produce replacements of UNIX tools > DS> one by one. It was entirely necessary to allow these new > DS> versions to operate within the older, proprietary system. > Wasn't your argument above, in response to the scenario that I was > describing, that it is not necessary to explicitly allow this because > "a user can never violate the GPL"? As long as you operate on a > proprietary system and not distributing anything, why would there all > of a sudden be a problem? It's not necessary as long as you are only a user. It is necessary when you want to be more than a user and copy, modify and distribute. That's the difference between free software and ``Free software'' [1] [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html In any case, I'm not interested in a technical discussion about the GPL either, I was only trying to respond to (what in my opinion was) some misinformation about the GPL. I have no interest in convincing you personally, and I wouldn't have bothered if this wasn't a public list. I think I have stated my point of view clearly enough, so I'm going to stop here. -Deepayan ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
