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: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Ronald Cole Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/08/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 265392465 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$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <33D6FA2B.9B7@ix.netcom.com> <33E00855.2BA7@ix.netcom.com> <5t1gi6$r1h@camel1.mindspring.com> Organization: RidgeNet - SLIP/PPP Internet, Ridgecrest, CA. (760) 371-3501 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Isaac@yellow.submarine.pla (Isaac) writes: > In article , Ronald Cole wrote: > >So, if one of your "wavefront" customers started giving me copies and > >I proceeded to make them available for anonymous ftp, you wouldn't > >retaliate? > >Are there any wavefront clients that would like to test this bold > >assertion out? > > I suspect you are the one person on earth least likely to get this > code. My understanding is that the GPL assures me that if I get a > binary from GPL'd code that I like, no one can keep me from sharing it > with my friends or getting the source and modifying it to my liking. > These is the freedom the manifesto talks about and the GPL tries to assure. > How many friends have you made in the GNAT community? I suspect I'll make quite a few once I find someone to feed me wavefront releases so that I can redistribute them publicly like the Linux development kernel. If not to me, then perhaps someone will feed them to the egcs project . -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My PGP fingerprint: E9 A8 E3 68 61 88 EF 43 56 2B CE 3E E9 8F 3F 2B