Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:10:28PM -0500, David Turner wrote:
>> Someone already answered the google question for you -- it saves >> you the 20k on a Google Search Appliance for your intranet. > > That's akin to someone releasing the source of a neat, > self-contained algorithm from an application. I can use it in my > own programs, and improve other, unrelated things with it, or learn > from it, or critique it. So it's a bit like releasing a GPL library. > But it doesn't let me improve the application that it's from at all, > since I don't have its source. Likewise, Google releasing source > might have lots of other benefits, but it doesn't let me improve > Google in any way, and I believe those "other benefits" are > peripheral. I don't think they're peripheral at all. Being able to use code for uses other than the primarily intended one is a central part of Free Software. > Now, we seem to have two related but distinct cases: Google and > BarInterface. I agree that there are two cases under discussion, but I think both are important and both are loopholes. -- Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint: 748F 4D16 538E 75D6 8333 9E10 D212 B5ED 37D0 0A03