Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:12:54PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:30:04PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > [1] http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/legal.html#10.2
> >
> > (Accusing Free Software programmers of "perverting" the license by doing
> > things they were clearly granted permission to do; that's wonderful.)
>
> Wasn't the force behind the license "re-interpreation" to stop people from
> distributing Pine with a maildir patch?
Like cdrecord with a dvdrecord patch, and yaboot with anything but pristing
upstream source ? Altough at lest in the yaboot case, it is not licencing that
is used, but threat to remove the debian yaboot mention from the official yaboot
web page of supported yaboto versions.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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