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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/07/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 258316038 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5pim4l$5m3$1@news.nyu.edu> <5ptv7r$4e2$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5pu5va$64o$1@news.nyu.edu> <5qdof6$iav$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5r3dfk$891@camel4.mindspring.com> Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Isaac@yellow.submarine.pla (Isaac) writes: > Even if I were to accept your definition of hoarding (and it does sound > reasonable), I think any position that requires me to develop the > above distribution system is unreasonable. Therefore either the > Manifesto is unreasonable, or it does not intend what you say. The manifesto talks about goals and ideals. It does not talk about the ideal means to achieve these goals. Having GPL being a contract demanding that you hand over software, heart and soul to the FSF is probably not going to help much. The way it is, GPL causes several freedoms to persist upon redistribution of the same and derived works, without forcing consequences for the author. This is a very reasonable expedient, IMHO, for helping people to further the goals of the FSF as expressed in the manifest. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany