Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265888AbTIJWeI (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:34:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265902AbTIJWdC (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:33:02 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:49869 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265882AbTIJW0Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:26:16 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Pascal Schmidt" Cc: Subject: RE: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model] Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:26:04 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1580 Lines: 39 > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:40:14 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel: > > However, Richard Stallman does not agree with this view. It's his > > view that if the authors chose to give you the code, you can use it any > > way you want to, regardless of how the authors feel about that type of > > usage. This is why he created the GPL. > Use in any way you want to is the BSD license, not the GPL. Please show me one restriction on *use* in the GPL. "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does." Licenses that place restrictions on usage are *not* open source licenses. > The GPL > does restrict what you're allowed to do in order to keep the source > free... Yes, it restricts your ability to distribute and your ability to create derived works if and only if you distribute those derived works. It places no restrictions whatsoever on use. And since it requires distributors to place no restrictions not in the GPL, distributors cannot place *any* restrictions on usage either. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/