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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/07/23 Message-ID: <33D63E82.2932@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 258349133 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5r3dfk$891@camel4.mindspring.com> <5r40u6$qun$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5r473p$kpa@camel2.mindspring.com> Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Isaac wrote: > The difference is strictly in the motivation of the people who get the > non production code. It is easy to postulate a non selfish, non > hoarding reason for people not to re-distribute possibly buggy code > in either binary or source fashion. These people might simply agree > that limited distribution beta testing is a good thing. I myself feel > this way. The poster I was responding to appeared to believe this as > well. The poster you were responding thinks that he is entitled either to free hand-holding in trying to duplicate the build process of the software authors, or to get on demand the latest beta version that the authors provide to their customers (who actually pay for the privilege of being beta testers for the rest of us). When ACT legitimately declined these demands, he went on a one-man flame war against them. Last I heard, 3.10 is still considered such a beta version and will be public as soon as ACT thinks it has been proven stable. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be 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! ----------------------------------------------------------------------