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: 1999/05/03 Message-ID: <372E3CC8.CBE4BFB4@iiinet.dhs.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473707190 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7gdln1$vna$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> <372ADFBD.4F4C241B@doc.ic.ac.uk> <7gff2f$8o2@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 925777096 24.93.213.213 (Mon, 03 May 1999 20:18:16 EDT) Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:18:16 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Arromdee wrote: > The IE 4 license says: > * Installation and Use. Microsoft grants you the right to install and use > copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly licensed > copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed > [e.g., Windows(r) 95; Windows NT(r), Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.]. That's a bit of stretch--how do you define ``designed''? One could easily blur the line between Bochs[1] and Wine and Microsoft Windows (none of this would be unlicenced provided you didn't redistribute the resulting cornhash of binaries). [1] For the purposes of this discussion, assume Bochs is licenced under the GPL or MIT-style licence.