On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:43:44AM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> The same way as if rights.html were included in qmail-1.03.tar.gz: I'd
> ask people who had copies to present them, to support my claim. There
> would be more such copies if it were included in qmail-1.03.tar.gz,
> but I'm not going to waste time worrying about it.
You're not, because you're not thinking from the perspective of someone who
wants to distribute.
> It's the same situation as with, say, Emacs. The GPL doesn't give you
> permission to get a copy of Emacs; it only specifies what you can do
> once you have. The nearest I could find to explicit permission to
> download it is "By FTP we provide source code for all GNU software,
> free of charge." at
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#HowToGetSoftware>, and
> that covers only the GNU site itself, not mirrors. I think
> rights.html is clearer.
You're still thinking too narrowly. I want an unambiguous license included
with the software that explicitly defines what I am allowed to do with it.
If you don't need that then fine, but please don't argue that it's not
needed, because there are clearly a number of people on this list that desire
it.
--Adam
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