Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to spam debian-devel -- and with a long message containing long paragraphs too, horrors! -- in replying to this. Who is sorry? How sorry? Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that this sorry-ness is not something that matters

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to spam debian-devel -- and with a long message containing long paragraphs too, horrors! -- in replying to this. Who is sorry? How sorry? Let's assume, for the sake of argument,

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:51:51PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: The GPL simply defers to copyright law to define derivative

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Second sentence in Section 0: The Program, below, refers to any such program or work, and a work based on the Program means either the Program or any derivative work under

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Second sentence in Section 0: The Program, below, refers to any such program or work, and a work based on the Program

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/05, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you're objecting to the that is to say phrase, which restates what work based on the Program: means. Attempts to,

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I don't, except insofar as C - the Program attempts to paraphrase E - the Program (= D). Oh for Pete's sake, (E - the Program) (= D). What a great place for a word wrap. - Michael

GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-05 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/4/05, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This part of the thread belongs on -legal] Sorry to spam debian-devel -- and with a long message containing long paragraphs too, horrors! -- in replying to this. But that's where this discussion is actually happening now, and I'm afraid I