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: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: [O/T 4 cla] Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/05 Message-ID: <7gprnj$pau$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 474355440 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7gkmt5$e8t@www.inetnow.net> <372E2E00.99917C63@iiinet.dhs.org> <7gnb7u$hlu@www.inetnow.net> <7goi9s$qvq$1@Mercury.mcs.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x14.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.4 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed May 05 16:30:42 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.01SC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Date: 1999-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7goi9s$qvq$1@Mercury.mcs.net>, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote: > There is a rather long tradition of user groups sharing their patches > to commercial works. It is usually encouraged rather than contested > as long as the participants all have their own copies of the base > code. This is potentially very misleading, I am aware of a major lawsuit where the EXACT point of contention is that such sharing of patches was a violation of the license agreement. You cannot generalize in this manner. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own