The GPL requires the freedom to be *allowed* to distribute the software
to anyone. The company rules forbid the distribution of the changes to
parties outside of the company. These two rules conflict.
It is not really a conflict. These copies belong to the company and
have never
I would rather see a note that this is not
the original Vim but a modified version. But I suppose I can't require
that without becoming GPL-incompatible...
I'm working on changing the GPL to make it possible to add certain
requirements along those lines. You might want to wait to
Branden Robinson wrote:
Well, I can see an easy way around this:
Don't ship Vim such that it tries to link against the gpm library by
default. This would be wrong anyway since Vim is not GPL'ed, and this
would encourage people to violate the license on the GPM library.
That's not
Richard Stallman wrote:
The GPL requires the freedom to be *allowed* to distribute the software
to anyone. The company rules forbid the distribution of the changes to
parties outside of the company. These two rules conflict.
It is not really a conflict. These copies belong
Richard Stallman wrote:
What if I have a copy with no changes at all, and want to distribute it
linked against GPM? I have to make a change (so it's a modified Vim)?
Linking against GPM counts as making a change in the program as a whole.
So that does not raise an issue.
Richard Stallman wrote:
I would rather see a note that this is not
the original Vim but a modified version. But I suppose I can't require
that without becoming GPL-incompatible...
I'm working on changing the GPL to make it possible to add certain
requirements along those
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:26:19 +0100
Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I now understand that the company can be considered to be one
licensee, thus passing copies around within the company is not
distributing. Thus GPL'ed software can be modified for use inside the
company. The only
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:04:02PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
What if I have a copy with no changes at all, and want to distribute it
linked against GPM? I have to make a change (so it's a modified Vim)?
Linking against GPM counts as making a change in the program as a whole.
So
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:26:19PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
The first paragraph of the Vim license says that an unmodified Vim can
be distributed without restrictions. This is GPL compatible, right?
Thus I would think an unmodified Vim can be distributed under the GPL,
so long as you
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If linking is changing, that would seem to make licenses that say you can
distribute unmodified binaries only impossible--you'd only be able to
distribute binaries supplied by the author.
Quite right. I have no idea what those licenses mean, but I've
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:03:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
If linking is changing, that would seem to make licenses that say you can
distribute unmodified binaries only impossible--you'd only be able to
distribute binaries supplied by the author.
Quite right. I have no idea
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:03:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
If linking is changing, that would seem to make licenses that say you
can
distribute unmodified binaries only impossible--you'd only be able to
distribute binaries supplied
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:10:30PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:03:45PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
What they *mean* seems fairly obvious to me: you can recompile the source
(presumably for different architectures or library versions), and
distribute those
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