GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > job job, someone has to speak for those who cannt ('cause they are coding > > > too much) He _is_ right. The day this will happen a big part of fre

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > > job job, someone has to speak for those who cannt ('cause they are coding > > > > too much) He _is

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > > > On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > > > job job, someone has to speak for those wh

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't like this? choose a different distro. Mandrake, Redhat and Debian, .. > Some of the software contained in those distributions is not free (e.g: > Netscape 4.72). But the distribution as a whole is. I don't know about Mandrake/R

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The linux kernel is licensed under a license that is not exactly the GPL. > It is the GPL with an extra clause that allows binary modules (to allow > support of certain kinds of hardware, and with certain limitations, but > this is really *not* the plac

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The linux kernel is licensed under a license that is not exactly the GPL. > > It is the GPL with an extra clause that allows binary modules (to allow > > support of certain kinds of hardware, and with certain limitations, but > > this is really *n

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do you mean by `make sure that whatever your module does makes > sense out of the context of the Linux kernel'? > I guess that once I will get that sentence I will be able to understand > why it is difficult to satisfy in the case of hardware driver

Re: GPL Nuances [was Re: RMS is back again]

2002-06-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Actually, come to think about it, contrary to what I wrote in the > posting that puzzled you, one can argue that a device driver is a > piece of software that makes a particular piece of software work, > using knowledge of its specific characteristics that are outside of