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: [O/T 4 cla] Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/03 Message-ID: <372DCFB9.57F91727@iiinet.dhs.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473557589 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7g7ul9$tib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3727B37D.A4A5192E@noah.dhs.org> <7g9rh5$h5a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7gdv6m$1fid$1@Mercury.mcs.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 925749177 24.93.213.213 (Mon, 03 May 1999 12:32:57 EDT) Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 12:32:57 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Leslie Mikesell wrote: > Now, if you never redistribute any GPL'd material you don't > need the copyright exception that the GPL gives you, so > why does it matter if you violate this licence by exchanging > patches? The patch is a derived work; you are not licenced to make copies of the copyrighted code unless you agree to the licence.