From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 7 15:59:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FE514ED8 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 15:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21668; Fri, 7 May 1999 15:59:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd021647; Fri May 7 15:59:06 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA29210; Fri, 7 May 1999 15:59:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905072259.PAA29210@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgrade To: stefanos@sentry.e-scape.net Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 22:59:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: billf@chc-chimes.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9905041945.AA02524@traveler.e-scape.net> from "Kiakas" at May 4, 99 03:45:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The GPL certainly has some restrictions, but if someone develops > software and distributes it to the Unix community we have no right to > demand that they distribute it under our terms. There is an implicit demand to that effect, if they want the code to become part of the kernel or part of any critical component without which FreeBSD would not run. Note that I said "run"; the GNU toolchain is immune from this restriction (though GNU tar isn't, and it's in there by default now...). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message