From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Roberto Diaz <rdiazmartin@vivaldi.ddts.net>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-legal@nl.linux.org,
Roberto Diaz <rdiazmartin@vivaldi.net.dhis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Guido Socher <guido@bearix.oche.de>
Subject: Re: Software Mestizo Manifesto
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:08:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010211210818.G3748@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14QR2C-0008EK-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102071923170.494-100000@vivaldi.ddts.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102071923170.494-100000@vivaldi.ddts.net>; from Roberto Diaz on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:25:25PM +0100
Hi!
> > > > Your "ethical" statement is incompatible with the GPL.
> >
> > I disagree. Its a statement. Its a request. It says 'advice'. Anyone is
> > entitled to advise how to use GPL software. The only issue is if someone
> > chooses to require it is not used by XYZ person.
>
> Please.. I am not lawyer... my intention were good, just to give authors
> the freedom to say "hey please dont drop a nuclear weapon in my city using
> my software" just that..
You may say "please don't drop nuclear weapon". You may *not* say "you
must not drop nuclear weapon", that would violate GPL.
Pavel
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-12 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-07 4:48 Software Mestizo Manifesto Roberto Diaz
2001-02-07 4:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-07 5:34 ` Roberto Diaz
2001-02-07 9:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-07 18:25 ` Roberto Diaz
2001-02-11 20:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-02-12 12:10 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-02-21 23:50 ` Mike Coleman
2001-02-07 11:06 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-07 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-07 11:45 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-07 6:40 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-12 14:25 ` Matthias Rosenkranz
2001-02-12 15:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-13 5:39 ` Michael Trausch
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2001-02-07 5:08 Roberto Diaz
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