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Re: GPL traitor !
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: GPL traitor ! |
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Wed, 20 May 2009 07:49:09 +0000 (UTC) |
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'ten Morgen, Joerg!
In gnu.misc.discuss Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> The GPL does not include a rule that would allow to make such a claim.
As a linguistic point, the verb "to allow" takes a direct object - a
bare infinitive here is wrong.
Any of the following is correct, with the direct object in upper case in
each case:
"... that would allow YOU to make such a claim."
"... that would allow SUCH A CLAIM to be made."
"... that would allow THE MAKING of such a claim." (clumsy, unusual).
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: GPL traitor !, (continued)
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hadron, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, JEDIDIAH, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/14