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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/06 Message-ID: <7gsrjo$g7i$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 474848983 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7gpvsh$tdm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7gqjpa$9cp$1@eyry.econ> <7gqrbf$mun$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x15.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.31 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu May 06 19:47:06 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) Date: 1999-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Barry Margolin wrote: > The GPL never specifically addresses the issue we're discussing. It's all > post facto posturing by RMS, as he tries to figure out how to apply the GPL > to situations that didn't exist when it was written. What he feels is a > logical extension of the spirit of the GPL may not in fact be supported by > copyright law. By the way Barry, perhaps it comes as a surprise to you, but the concept of patch files is very very old, probably nearly as old as the concept of programs. And yes, of course the issue of patch files has been considered from the start, there is nothing "post facto" about this, and of course this situation has existed from the inception of the GPL. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own