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: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Confusing language, was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/05 Message-ID: <7vvpbr$f7f$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 544933328 References: <7vs4g9$7hs1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x23.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Nov 05 23:31:07 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , cts@kampong.aedinc.net (Craig Spannring) wrote: > Of course it gets a little muddled if the original author > accepts patches from other people. If the other people > patched some GPL'd code, and the original author accepted > those patches, the GPL would tend to infect the vendors > copyrighted code. This is a bit confused, the GPL is not causing any "infection" here. If you have a derived work with multiple copyright holders, then of course all copyright holders must agree before you can do something depending on the copyright, e.g. distribute it with some other license. So it is not the GPL here that causes the trouble (the GPL is only about freeing you to do things you could not otherwise do with copyrighted material), it is the fact that there is a copyright (and you wnat to do something that is not allowed by the license you have). If you feel like putting a bootlegged copy of Power Point on ebay, you are in trouble. It is not the Microsoft license that is getting you into trouble, it is the Microsoft copyright. The thing to remember is that the GPL is simply a license that allows you to do things, it never stops you from doing things, it is the original coypright that stops you from doing things. The GPL, like any license simply allows you to do certain things that you would not be able to do in the absence of the license (because they would be copyright violations). The GPL is in this respect no different from the Microsoft license (it is just that it is quite a bit more permissive :-) Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.