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: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: "Joshua E. Rodd" Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/28 Message-ID: <3727B32D.7D27B23@noah.dhs.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472102730 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <37264DE6.7AA43E60@noah.dhs.org> <7g5qgg$n7t@www.inetnow.net> <372753FF.11F381CF@noah.dhs.org> <7g7ro3$q91@www.inetnow.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@neo.rr.com X-Trace: dustdevil.neo.rr.com 925348654 24.93.213.213 (Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:17:34 EDT) Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:17:34 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Arromdee wrote: > According to the FSF, you might be able to do that, but nobody would be > allowed to give you code with a stricter license, whose use is to be > mishmashed together with GPL code. If someone does that, that is considered > a disguised way of distributing the combination, and since distributing the > combination is not allowed, neither is distributing the component. You could distribute ed context scripts however you wish. What you *do* with the ed script is irrelevant. Hmmm... maybe this could be used to sneak KDE into Debian .