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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: GPL Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 08:09:22 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32FB2982.7DA2@umich.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32ED1866.34F02393@indiana.edu> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> <m23evgchq9.fsf@maxwell.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us> <5d2jpo$bb1@omega.gmd.de> <LJn9y0gTzz1L091yn@ibm.net> <5df12n$ckb@kadri.ut.ee> Reply-To: tmwatson@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: aha399.ccs.itd.umich.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156580 comp.os.linux.networking:67482 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82661 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2314 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52046 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266075 Sander Vesik wrote: > They surely will support the manufacturer of the embeded processor gcc - > who would doubt that they may do with their work whatever they want (= not > allow you to distribute it). This is stupid. If I wrote gcc, the modified gcc distributed by the manufacturer incorporates MY work. I have the right to say that the that the company that modifies MY gcc will ONLY be allowed to use MY gcc as a free basis for their modification on the condition that they supply redistributable source code. This seems eminently sensible to me, in what more precise way does this fall apart under Estonian law? "licensing" just means that there are "conditions of use," that is, this is considered to be a contractual transaction (which can protect my rights in more detail than a simple "sale") -Tim Watson