Re: Proposal for P2P disclaimer text

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On Thursday 18 March 2004 16:44, Martin K=F6bele wrote:
> Hi,
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> after I just released Apollon 0.9.3 I asked a debian-developer to update =
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> repository. And I just had to learn that the proposed suggestions (by Pet=
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> Stockke and Andreas Pour) violate the GPL.
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> GPL =A70:  "[...]The act of running the Program is not restricted,[...]".
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> So we can't restrict, we could warn though.

Actually it's not an additional restriction -- it essentially says "You are=
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allowed to break the law with this" -- which is stating something that is=20
true whether you state it or not...

If I put "you are allowed to break the law with this" into a license it=20
doesn't have any bearing on it being that actually being allowed.  ;-)

But anyway -- I'd actually prefer to have it as a warning (possibly in a=20
slightly shortened form than the one suggested) in the program...

=2D -Scott

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