From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/16
Date: 1998-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pvbs6zb3.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 708040$4h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dennison@telepath.com writes:
> You heard wrong. Well, I suppose it could be considered not free, depending
> on your definition of free, but lets not get into that. Gnat is under the
> GPL, and thus can *never* be made proprietary.
Oh yeah? Just try to talk Dewar out of 3.11b without crossing his
palm with some cash... He's even threatened to consider not doing
business with any one who starts giving out wavefront ("non-p")
releases (i.e., exercises their right under the GPL). There is little
difference in effect between "proprietary" and "hoarded". The GPL
does not prevent hoarding. Stallman has stated that Dewar is
perfectly free to decide who he gives any particular version of GNAT
to, and rejected the notion that the "act of distributing" under the
GPL requires one to become a distributor to every Tom, Dick, and Harry
and subsequently asks for a copy.
Of course, I've always secretly wondered if Dewar would shutdown his
business completely if every one of his clients started giving out
wavefront releases...
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` geertbosch
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole [this message]
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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1998-10-22 0:00 Gnat Free ? Van Snyder
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