On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Alex wrote: > > if need be, i'll distribute it as a GPL'ed patch. but i really have a hard > > time believing that anyone is going to care as long as the original > > attributions are left unchanged.
> look into the way the gnu license works. look at it _very_ carefully. > you cannot distrubite gnu licensed code with stuff that is incompatible > with it. not even as a patch file. there's been discussions on this kind > of thing before (with the gnu lawyers too), and unfortunately, that's the > way things work. by my understanding of it, i can release my entire derived work as GPL with the attribution exceptions. actually - this is all OT and stupid. neither of us is a lawyer and no one not on this list will ever care. i have no intenetion of ditching the attributions and helpfiles and whatnot. i don't think that anything else should matter to anyone here. see ya, -- Blue Lang http://www.b-side.org/~blue editor, b-side.org http://www.b-side.org bug generation unit, alanthia mud alanthia.org 1536 integration engineer, veritas software http://www.veritas.com
