Proposal for P2P disclaimer text
Andreas Pour
pour at mieterra.com
Fri Mar 19 02:11:17 CET 2004
Martin Köbele wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> after I just released Apollon 0.9.3 I asked a debian-developer to update the
> repository. And I just had to learn that the proposed suggestions (by Petter
> Stockke and Andreas Pour) violate the GPL.
>
> GPL §0: "[...]The act of running the Program is not restricted,[...]".
It's amazing how much FUD Debian developers can spread. Please do not listen to
them on license issues, they don't understand squat.
In this case, the GPL more specifically says:
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,
So it is outside the scope, hence, such restrictions are not inconsistent.
Moreover, as I pointed out earlier, the point of the text is to *amend* the
license. An amendment is never inconsistent with the license b/c it *amends*
it. I also noted in an earlier mail that if you need to be *pure GPL* (b/c of
some clueless Debian developer) *and* you are linking to a GPL app, then you
might make it precatory.
> So we can't restrict, we could warn though.
Ciao,
Dre
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