From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:27:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87668fx0i1.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9soauj$ct5$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > But it imposes no obligation of any kind on you to distribute your
> > software to John, Mary, or Alice, whether on request or otherwise.
> > You and Fred are perfectly entitled, under the GPL, to keep your
> > modifications entirely private if you should so choose.
>
> But Fred is also entitled, if he so chooses, to distribute the program
> and the source as far and as wide as he likes without any further
> agreement from me. Am I correct?
Certainly. If you choose to give a copy to Fred, and it's copylefted,
then Fred gets the right to send copies where he wants, when he
wants. But neither he nor you have any obligation to do so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-08 10:40 Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 12:55 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 14:34 ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-10 2:00 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:29 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-11-12 10:42 ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-12 20:24 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-13 0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:41 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-11-13 10:26 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 13:46 [9fans] " forsyth
2001-11-09 0:51 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-08 14:55 presotto
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 10:17 ` John S. Dyson
2001-11-09 7:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-09 9:21 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 11:23 ` pac
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:45 ` David Rubin
2001-11-12 15:34 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-09 9:38 okamoto
2001-11-12 11:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-12 13:48 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13 16:21 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-12 12:17 geoff
2001-11-13 10:25 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 13:14 nigel
2001-11-13 0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 18:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-14 9:52 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 15:10 presotto
2001-11-12 17:06 anothy
2001-11-12 19:15 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-12 19:18 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 0:19 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 2:02 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 2:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 2:27 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 10:34 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 19:24 anothy
2001-11-14 9:52 ` Eyal Lotem
2001-11-13 19:58 presotto
2001-11-13 20:14 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 21:39 ` Mike Haertel
2001-11-13 22:54 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-14 0:19 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 20:17 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 22:38 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 20:18 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-13 21:44 presotto
2001-11-13 21:47 ` andrey
2001-11-13 21:46 Sape Mullender
2001-11-13 21:46 Russ Cox
2001-11-13 21:50 presotto
2001-11-14 0:40 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 22:18 forsyth
2001-11-13 23:27 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2001-11-14 4:38 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-13 23:46 forsyth
2001-11-14 4:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-14 5:12 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-14 5:24 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-14 8:29 okamoto
2001-11-14 9:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-14 14:29 rob pike
2001-11-15 10:41 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-14 14:43 presotto
2001-11-14 16:08 anothy
2001-11-14 18:02 forsyth
[not found] <20011112170104.719C619ABA@mail.cse.psu.edu>
2001-12-29 4:03 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-13 11:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-13 15:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-11-13 17:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
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