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Re: Who are 'ldraw.org'? (was: Parts license)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:41:58 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> But isn't the GPL a case of GNU throwing out some verbiage and saying, 'OK,
> here's an example, use it or modify or whatever', and authors/publishers
> actually copying the license, and putting it on their own work.
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> It's not like GNU is brokering the agreement or distribution. Except for
> their own stuff.
I think one of the points of creating GPL was to have a 'brokering
party' available for everyone who wants to use it. There's no need to
modify anything.
Here's an paragraph from the GPL:
10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free
programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the
author
to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the Free
Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we
sometimes make exceptions for this.
This clearly indicates that GPL can be used by anyone who wants to
distribute their own programs. Or maybe I didn't understand what you
mean by brokering because my english is not very good ?
Leonardo
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| (...) But isn't the GPL a case of GNU throwing out some verbiage and saying, 'OK, here's an example, use it or modify or whatever', and authors/publishers actually copying the license, and putting it on their own work. It's not like GNU is brokering (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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