[Sussex] Thoughts On Contrubuting to the Communityr

[Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson]

Geoff

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 08:42:47PM +0100, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 17:58 +0100, Vic wrote:
> > > We're not?  The GPL is full of terms that you *must* follow in order to
> > > use that software
> > 
> > No it isn't. Absolutely not.
> > 
> > The GPL v2 contains a number of requirements that you must fulfill in
> > order to *redistribute* the code. It absolutely and categorically sets no
> > restrictions whatsoever on how you choose to use that code.
> 
> Vic, you're absolutely right.  GPL 3 makes this even more explicit.

My apologies for not being clear.  As this thread is about advocacy
when I used the phrase "use the software" I was think in terms of showing
others how you use Linux and sharing it with them.

Steve

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                              Steve "Dobbo" Dobson
                                steve at dobson.org
                               SussexLUG Master
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