Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:04:55 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model] |
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David Schwartz wrote: >>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:40:14 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel: > > >>>However, Richard Stallman does not agree with this view. It's his >>>view that if the authors chose to give you the code, you can use it any >>>way you want to, regardless of how the authors feel about that type of >>>usage. This is why he created the GPL. >> > >>Use in any way you want to is the BSD license, not the GPL. > > > Please show me one restriction on *use* in the GPL. > > "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of > running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program > is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the > Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). > Whether that is true depends on what the Program does." > > Licenses that place restrictions on usage are *not* open source licenses.
What about "usage" of source code?
GPL says you are not allowed to "use" GPL source in a non-free program that you publish.
> >>The GPL >>does restrict what you're allowed to do in order to keep the source >>free... > > > Yes, it restricts your ability to distribute and your ability to create > derived works if and only if you distribute those derived works. It places > no restrictions whatsoever on use. And since it requires distributors to > place no restrictions not in the GPL, distributors cannot place *any* > restrictions on usage either.
I don't think anyone was talking about use of applications, but rather use of source code.
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