From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 2 8:24:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D4137B403 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f62FOnb93291 ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:24:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id RAA08365 ; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:24:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:24:48 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: j mckitrick Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Dirk Myers , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010702172448.I4896@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: j mckitrick , Giorgos Keramidas , Dirk Myers , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010630173455.T344@teleport.com> <20010701032900.A93049@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010701132353.W344@teleport.com> <20010702152649.A18127@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010702180222.A2667@hades.hell.gr> <20010702161055.A18543@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010702161055.A18543@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:10:55PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG j mckitrick said on Jul 2, 2001 at 16:10:55: > > Well, that's a big piece of the puzzle, for me anyway. If the GPL can be > removed by the copyright owner, maybe it's not so evil after all. It cannot be "removed" by the copyright owner, but the copyright owner can dual-license it, or release an enhanced version under a different license. Examples: Troll Tech is currently dual-licensing Qt. Peter Deutsch has for many years released new versions of Ghostscript under a commercial license and a restrictive "free beer" license, and the license gets changed to GPL after 1 year. (He says he made enough money to retire on. He also says the problem with GPL was it did not adequately prevent commercial use by others.) Hans Reiser plans to dual-license ReiserFS and try to make money from that. However, the copyright owner can't withdraw code that is already out there under the GPL. The same is true of the BSD license; that's how OpenSSH came to exist. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message