From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Slightly changed copyright, new test release
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:07:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199610190407.AAA29956@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Oct 1996 02:04:54 +0200." <199610190004.CAA32111@bolyai.cs.elte.hu>
> Richard Coleman wrote:
> > Personally, I think Richard Stallman is just being overly paranoid
> > about this. I think the current copyright is fine.
>
> Does this means that you oppose the change? I also think that RMS is
> paranoid but I think it does not hurt anyone if we make the copyright text
> more clear. If we ever want to integrate FSF copyrighted code to zsh we
> have better chances with this change. The origin of this change was the
> color-ls patch. Someone asked RMS for permission to include it into zsh.
> RMS mailed me then that he finds zsh copyright too restrictive because it
> does not allow distribution of modified versions (that was his
> imterpretation).
No, the new copyright doesn't bother me. I would agree to using it on
the parts I have copyrighted. But I still don't know if that allows us
to add code that is under the GPL. I thought that would require the
rest of the code to be under GPL (which I'm generally against). I like
the fact that the source code of zsh is available. But if someone
wants to distribute zsh binaries without source code, that is fine with
me. I hate forcing someone to distribute source code by using the GPL.
Of course, this is just my opinion.
rc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-19 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-18 20:53 Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-18 21:07 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-18 22:36 ` Richard Coleman
1996-10-19 0:04 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-19 4:07 ` Richard Coleman [this message]
1996-10-19 13:00 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-19 14:41 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-19 19:01 ` Richard Coleman
1996-10-19 5:05 ` Paul Falstad
1996-10-21 7:31 ` Peter Stephenson
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