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[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"DeepBlue" <DeepBlue at DeepBlue.org> wrote in message
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> "Magnus Lie Hetland" <mlh at idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message
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> > "Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message
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> > [snip]
> > > And after you've modified it - do you have
> > > rights to distribute it to your friends?
> >
> > I hope you are not claiming that what you said above is something
peculiar
> > to Free (as in Gnu/FSF) Software? It would also apply to Open Source
> > software. (And, yes, people would be allowed to make non-open-source
> > software based on it, and _that_ software might not be free in any
> > sense.)
> >
> This is contested.  check the issue with Virtual Dub.  An open source
> project.
> Someone used the code to produce an **unopen application.  Virtual Dub guy
> does not like and he is threatening to sue.
> What you describe is called theft.

No, it's called OpenSource. (Take Python as an example.) Virtual Dub is
Free Software in the GNU sense -- it's governed by the GPL, which is
exactly the issue. That's _not_ what I was talking about.

> DeepBlue

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