Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-23 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Apr-00, 09:57 (CDT), Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:15:29PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > just wanted to discuss the ability to "misinterpret" the DFSG Par. 9 > and possibly working creativly on a change for the terminology > making it more clear wha

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-23 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > Read your quote: "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software" On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Excuse me, but what about that quote makes it illegal for a license > > to license the software that

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-23 Thread Brian F. Kimball
Steve Greenland wrote: > A reading of the complete GPL, along with RMS's other writings, not to > mention the gigabytes of commentary and clarification that have been > written since the GPL's release make it clear that GPL is intended to > apply only to the licencsed software itself and derived w

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-23 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Read your quote: "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software" > > Excuse me, but what about that quote makes it illegal for a license to > license the software tha

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-23 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > Read your quote: "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software" Excuse me, but what about that quote makes it illegal for a license to license the software that it licenses for distribution? $ dict other 1 definition found >From Wo

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-23 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:15:29PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Likewise, the intent of the DFSG is clearly to allow the combined ^^ > distribution of independent works on the same media or from the same ^^ > (vi