Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1365 gnu.misc.discuss:737 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uhnix1!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Disinfecting the GNU Public Virus...er...License Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 00:36:29 GMT References: <4&VSZ:@splut.conmicro.com> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 31 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >Some short time ago someone asked for examples of public domain code that >had been expropriated by a producer of commercial software. No one could >come up with an example. Huh? WHat does this have to do with it? >I suggest that you come up with an example of someone who unintentionally >"infected" his code. I'm not sure that someone has, yet...but there's plenty of time. The opportunity certainly exists. >As people have pointed out ad nauseum, you are perfectly free NOT to >join in RMS' utopia. Just don't use any of his property, and you >won't have to abide by the rules he puts on the use of his property. ...which means don't use his libraries and don't use Bison, either. Sure sounds like a significant restriction to me. >RMS *wants* the GPL to be a virus. At least, that is my conclusion >based on my interpretation of the GPL. Why do you keep attempting >to make this conclusion into a pejorative? Because it *is* a pejorative - just like "thief". -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- "There is no doubt I should be tarred and feathered." - Richard Sexton