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Re: SUSE 7.1
- To: Oren Held <mlist(at-nospam)opinionz.cjb.net>
- Subject: Re: SUSE 7.1
- From: "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" <frodo(at-nospam)sharat.co.il>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:45:37 +0200 (IST)
- cc: Linux IL <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0102241357450.29050-100000@deot.net>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
OH>> I heard from some people that the yast license is pretty 'sly' and some
OH>> bad things about it. I prefer GPL not because I want to see its source or
OH>> modify it (Although maybe it could be nice), but because I want to be free
OH>> to use it.
GPL has nothing to do with usage, and can not, because copyright law, on
which GPL bases, controls distribution, not use. Nothing in the copyright
law can prevent you to do anything with the text of the book, but it can
prevent you from redistributing the text.
BTW, RMS is very eager to change this, and make GPL control the use too
- to prevent "loopholes" such as separating GPLed code inside
proprietary application and running it as independant module, without
redistributing it or even including it in the proprietary product
distribution. However nice it seems for "free software", it's very very
dangerous move. But this is another topic...
OH>> Sure. There are more nice licenses such as the BSD license.. But
OH>> most of the other licenses are not as free as GPL is, so I
GPL is much less free that BSD. In fact, GPL is the most restrictive open
source license known to me - it not only mandates you to opensource all
your changes or additions to the code, it specifically prescribes under
what license you should do it. And, as I said, RMS wants to make it even
more restrictive. That's "beneficial for specific group of software
developers" - to which you may or may not to belong, but not "free".
OH>> Besides, you talk like the whole open source community is
OH>> sponsored by these companies. I know very few open source
OH>> projects which are sponsored.
Oh, well, so you know not much. That's nice you realize it. Next step is
to try and know more.
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phone +972-3-9316425 /\ JRRT LotR.
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