From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/06/30 Message-ID: <33B7FF3A.6AAE@does.not.exist.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 253682123 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <33B014E3.3343@no.such.com> <5oqp9s$7vj$1@news.nyu.edu> <33B13BF6.79C7@no.such.com> <33B2ABA6.2A44C487@link.com> <33B42D26.75A2@link.com> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Notice that I think this entire discussion is academic, and can in practice I think the entire discussion has gone beyond academic and is approaching ridiculous (especially now that certain malcontents have joined in). > be left moot. Wes has not given any indication of a specific example where > the fact that code is under the GPL has in fact been a problem to him. It The most recent example was actually quite some time ago, when I was trying to get a stack trace on a Pentium. But the post in which I changed the subject line to the one above was more recent. The reasonI posted it then, was that I promised someone I'd look up the pertinent paragraph of the GPL and I had just gotten around to doing so. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol AT pseserv3.fw.hac.com Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------