Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Good evening, Hadron! In gnu.misc.discuss Hadron wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: >> In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen wrote: >>> You appear to believe that modifying the source of a GPLed program >>> so that it invokes a function which is provided separately under a >>> non-GPL license violates

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Hadron
Alan Mackenzie writes: > In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Do you mean that if somebody adds functionality to GPL program, and >>> arranges for this new functionality to be called through a socket call >>> (substitute technically correct terms here) rather than

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Rjack
Alan Mackenzie wrote: In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Do you mean that if somebody adds functionality to GPL program, and arranges for this new functionality to be called through a socket call (substitute technically correct terms here) rather than a normal functio

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Hadron! In gnu.misc.discuss Hadron wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: >>> The GPL is useless without copyright law. The two are entertwined. You >>> cannot understand the GPL without understanding copyright law, thus the >>> "contents fo the GPL" includes copyright law, because the GPL is a

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Hadron
Alan Mackenzie writes: > Evening, Erik! > > In gnu.misc.discuss Erik Funkenbusch wrote: >> On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:43:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Funny, but even YOU don't seem to understand the GPL that nobody could possibly misunderstand. Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't under

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Evening, Erik! In gnu.misc.discuss Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:43:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Funny, but even YOU don't seem to understand the GPL that nobody could >>> possibly misunderstand. Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't understand >>> it. >> Or maybe you don

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Hadron
Erik Funkenbusch writes: > On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:43:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >>> Funny, but even YOU don't seem to understand the GPL that nobody could >>> possibly misunderstand. Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't understand >>> it. >> >> Or maybe you don't have a clue what "outside i

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Erik Funkenbusch
On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:43:09 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> Funny, but even YOU don't seem to understand the GPL that nobody could >> possibly misunderstand. Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't understand >> it. > > Or maybe you don't have a clue what "outside its scope" means. The FSF > is talk

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
In gnu.misc.discuss Tim Smith wrote: > In article , Alan Mackenzie > wrote: >> > Another example is XMLRPC (or SOAP or other similar technoloties) in >> > which a function is called via network request on a distributed system. >> > Some believe that this is covered by the GPL, others believe it

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Do you mean that if somebody adds functionality to GPL program, and >> arranges for this new functionality to be called through a socket call >> (substitute technically correct terms here) rather than a normal function >> call, that

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack wrote: > Not so tired and tedious that you are refraining from whining in > reply. If I'm an obsessive crusader, then use your killfile. No one > is forcing your mouse to click. Why don't you just move to some other > forum that's a little more comforting to Freetards? W

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen wrote: > Erik Funkenbusch wrote: >> Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't understand it. > It's the latter. The FSF (probably deliberately) tells an untruth ... You're not pulling punches here, are you? > ... when it claims that the GPL applies to a dynamically link

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Hyman Rosen writes: > Erik Funkenbusch wrote: >> Or maybe it's the FSF that doesn't understand it. > > It's the latter. The FSF (probably deliberately) tells an untruth > when it claims that the GPL applies to a dynamically linked program > or to separately distributed plugins. It tells no such

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-05-09 Thread David Kastrup
Erik Funkenbusch writes: > On Fri, 8 May 2009 09:58:11 + (UTC), Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Dynamic linking, along with static linking, compilation, >> interpretation, profiling, and other specific techniques used by >> hackers are not covered by the GPL - they're outside its scope, and >> wou