* getting gnats
@ 2000-03-23 12:25 Raymond Marshall
2000-03-23 12:35 ` Ronald J. Kimball
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From: Raymond Marshall @ 2000-03-23 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnats-devel
If gnats is under the GPL, why can I get to its FTP site without an
account and password?
/ Ray
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* Re: getting gnats
2000-03-23 12:25 getting gnats Raymond Marshall
@ 2000-03-23 12:35 ` Ronald J. Kimball
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From: Ronald J. Kimball @ 2000-03-23 12:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Raymond Marshall, gnats-devel
At 03:19 PM 3/23/00 -0500, Raymond Marshall wrote:
>If gnats is under the GPL, why can I get to its FTP site without an
>account and password?
>
Admittedly, I'm not an expert on the GPL, but I don't understand the
question. Why would you expect the GPL to require an account and password?
(The P is for Public, after all.)
Ronald
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* Re: getting gnats
2000-03-23 14:24 Jason Molenda
@ 2000-03-24 3:27 ` Raymond Marshall
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From: Raymond Marshall @ 2000-03-24 3:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Molenda; +Cc: gnats-devel, Jim Kingdon
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jason wrote:
> Raymond Marshall wrote:
>
> > If gnats is under the GPL, why can I get to its FTP site without an
> > account and password?
>
> It is not.
>
> You are probably using Internet Explorer, maybe version five. It
> misinterprets the message "Maximum number of anonftp users reached,
> here is a list of mirrors" and instead prompts you to enter a
> password/login name without any hint as to what the problem was.
I use netscape 4.7 on Solaris. From home (where I use the same version,
but on Linux), I did get the maximum number error, but it also said the
password was wrong. Curious.
Furthermore, using ncftp to ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gnats/index.html
gave me a bad password message, too.
From home I did finally get into your home page, and from there I clecked
on "GNATS 3.113 released" which took me to
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/gnats/snapshots/index.html
from which I was able to download a copy. (Interesting address :-)
/ Ray
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* Re: getting gnats
@ 2000-03-23 14:24 Jason Molenda
2000-03-24 3:27 ` Raymond Marshall
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From: Jason Molenda @ 2000-03-23 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: raym; +Cc: gnats-devel, Jim Kingdon
Raymond Marshall wrote:
> If gnats is under the GPL, why can I get to its FTP site without an
> account and password?
It is not.
You are probably using Internet Explorer, maybe version five. It
misinterprets the message "Maximum number of anonftp users reached,
here is a list of mirrors" and instead prompts you to enter a
password/login name without any hint as to what the problem was.
I'd fix this if it was fixable, but it isn't. IE is a decent
browser (better than the competition, anyway) but it really loses
here and there isn't much that can be done from our side.
Jason
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* RE: getting gnats
@ 2000-03-23 12:35 Paul Traina
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From: Paul Traina @ 2000-03-23 12:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Raymond Marshall', gnats-devel
Ray,
Because you and your company have automatically agreed to be fully bound by
all terms of the GPL by connecting to said FTP site.
Please send your 10% revenue tithe to: GPL redemption fees
385 Ravendale Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94403
Thanks,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Marshall [ mailto:raym@nortelnetworks.com ]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 12:19 PM
To: gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: getting gnats
If gnats is under the GPL, why can I get to its FTP site without an
account and password?
/ Ray
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