----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gehlker" <chris@GCCodeFactory.biz>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Which distro for the enterprise now?


> On Feb 3, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > Clearly
> > the GPL license was written in contemplation of the fact that this is a
> > capitalistic society and that the code would not become the provincial
> > domain of any corporation, large or small, public, private or
> > non-profit, but would be available for use, study and modification.
> 
> But the GPL allows exactly that the code can become "the provincial 
> domain of any corporation , large or small, public, private or 
> non-profit" or any other organization. 

Um, how?

> So to set the record straight, the GPL imposes *no* obligations on any 
> corporate entity to make derived programs available for use, study or 
> modification no matter how widely those programs my be deployed. 

Hrm.  That's not what section 2 says:  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Thomas