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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472807307 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7g7ro3$q91@www.inetnow.net> <7g7tlc$j5g$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> <7g8fid$c7c$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g8km0$kh3$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 925492468 nnrp-07:1795 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 29 Apr 1999 03:46:08 GMT, Lynn Winebarger wrote: >to a text? That would qualify as "comment" under the fair use doctrine, >and I think a patch file (particularly a source patch file) could >reasonably be characterized this way. A patch file isn't an annotation (those *are* comments ;>), but a modification based on an origional work. I think it very clearly violates the spirit of the GPL, though perhaps not the letter. OTOH this is all meaningless unless and until it's brought up in court. - Aidan -- "Rotary barrel death stars: for when you absoloutely, positively, have to obliterate every planet in the system" http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/ http://www.gla.ac.uk/Clubs/WebSoc/~9704075s/