Re: The draft Position statement on the GFDL

[Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br>]

@ 14/05/2004 02:39 : wrote Raul Miller :

> Huh?
>
> Let's add some patents and maybe some special government legislation
> or treaties to the mix, for example -- such that you have a proprietary
> function which can be distributed under some license terms which involve
> money changing hands, but cannot be distributed under GPL license terms.
>
> How is it not the GPL which is preventing this distribution?
>  
Because the *cause* that is preventing the distribution lies in the 
governmental restrictions, not in the GPL.


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