From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAvMm-0004Uv-9z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:18:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6HMGRid020846; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:16:27 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6HMAMil012606 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:10:23 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E8565388 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:10:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.173 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.173 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.172, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OMTLKyXQIadi for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0085A65488 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IAvF8-0005Pn-10 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:10:06 +0200 Received: from adsl-074-165-231-051.sip.msy.bellsouth.net ([74.165.231.51]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:10:06 +0200 Received: from boxcars by adsl-074-165-231-051.sip.msy.bellsouth.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:10:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?u1Gr?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 2 to 3?? Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:05:40 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <14178ED3A898524FB036966D696494FB138F1B@messenger.cv63.navy.mil> <200707171214.30923.bss03@volumehost.net> <469D18A7.9090001@kutulu.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-074-165-231-051.sip.msy.bellsouth.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: *#`F(_&o,GRH~~$V&ByU1LZAWc]JgxuT`Pv2y0`&JE`(=*PcC>#m2]xv]p,i|9mDJ+8dGMJl`V[!z]\N}qrLTHjU]Sew>rQBShT_8.(0Q(iH,Gu7k|y/)^!@oVydVrix*#|-|u2~zgA'U3nQ_fa#jXvcGL[9f:>8?U=hXYK3D~*}Gq$TjPe1WXEFLGTiB3ot!oMH"'(Jop0(\0C X-No-Archive: yes Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6HMGRix020846 X-Archives-Salt: 08fa24ce-7809-423f-9f23-c38d5740b9df X-Archives-Hash: 016232f0ab6e104ebd4080e026b77abb In , Mike Edenfield wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> Remember that the GPL has always been about all the users NOT just >> the developers/distributors -- "adapt it to your needs" is not >> allowed when it restricts other users' freedoms. =20 > >Very few GPL proponents are willing to make this (rather obviously >true) statement; I'm glad some are. But to be more accurate, one >should say that the GPL has always been about guaranteeing users >freedoms *at the expense of* the developer's freedoms. Perhaps you mean downstream developers who accept the GPL granted by upstream? The original developers can do whatever they like with their code, since they don't need to license it from anyone. --=20 =BBQ=AB --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list