From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 12 3:42:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D46137B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:42:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0012.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.12] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16E7ll-0006I2-00; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:41:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3C174284.8F0B3B7B@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:41:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD References: <20011211093550.D4BF638CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011211102645.46795.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> <20011211183001.B67986@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C15CD07.6D5FC2E7@mindspring.com> <20011212131125.A82733@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C16D226.F169C43D@mindspring.com> <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > +-------[ Terry Lambert ]---------------------- > | RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite > | distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to > | work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions, > | I can't see him *not*. Factor that into your decision. > > Just to balance this point out; > > Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has > RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be > a consideration? I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM product. Not. 8^p -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message