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Re: cdrecord: weird GPL interpretation



Sven Luther wrote:
> 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.

That's interesting; could you point me towards a reference for this?  I
can't seem to find one via Google.  (Or was it in private mail?)

- Josh Triplett

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