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

2000-04-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:10:48AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > If they're incompatible, that logically means that one (or both) is > restricting SOMEBODY's freedom True. If you read the GPL it will explain exactly which freedoms it restricts and why it does that. And if you examine the DFSG, or th

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

2000-04-24 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 24-Apr-00, 00:29 (CDT), John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question then becomes one of which license is violated. The violated > > license is logically the more restrictive in that particular circumstance > > and the logical assumption

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

2000-04-24 Thread John Galt
Since I'm in his killfile, I'm responding to the list more to set the record straight than caring whether or not Starner hears me...I guess the freedom quote fell on deaf ears... I've always thought a "killfile parting shot" was in bad taste, but this is sort of about freedom of others to speak,

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

2000-04-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Apr-00, 00:29 (CDT), John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question then becomes one of which license is violated. The violated > license is logically the more restrictive in that particular circumstance > and the logical assumption may be extended via generalization, after > suitable

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

2000-04-24 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:29:36PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > suitable application of weasel words. From the vast (or is it half-vast?) > amount of discussion on this point, I'm guessing that the GPL is the > violated one, so thus is the more restrictive in that circumstance. I'm Guessing indicat

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

2000-04-24 Thread John Galt
The question then becomes one of which license is violated. The violated license is logically the more restrictive in that particular circumstance and the logical assumption may be extended via generalization, after suitable application of weasel words. From the vast (or is it half-vast?) amount

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

2000-04-24 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 06:21:48PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > a problem but is is NOT a combined program - I see it as > KDE including parts of QT2 and therefor requiring those parts > of the QT2 to be under the GPL (symbol names, api definition etc). > It's actually more than that. The proc