On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:44:55AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 00:30, Brian May wrote: > > 2. If you wrote and released the program under the GPL, and you designed > > it specifically to work with those facilities, people can take that as > > an implicit exception permitting them to link it with those facilities. > > But if that is what you intend, it is better to say so explicitly. > > > > 3. You can't take someone else's GPL-covered code and use it that way, > > or add such exceptions to it. Only the copyright holders of that code > > can add the exception. > > > > > > Point 2 says you can take someone else's code... > > There's the rub. Point two talks about your code, not someone else's. > Notice the second word in point 2 for evidence.
Point two is saying that people (other than the copyright holder) might infer that permission is implicit, which is what he's referring to, I think. (I agree with Branden's response.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
