From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 6 10:52:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378BD37B405 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA30411 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 13:53:08 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020406124622.019bfdc8@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:50:41 -0600 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license? In-Reply-To: <3CAEFFAA.91525BB3@optusnet.com.au> References: <200204051922.06556@silver.dt1.binity.net> <3CAE7037.801FB15F@optusnet.com.au> <3CAEA028.186ED53E@optusnet.com.au> <3CAED90B.F4B7905@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:01 AM 4/6/2002, Ian Pulsford wrote: >Remember when someone makes a piece of code it has no >licence, you can't do anything with it until you have permissions from >the author. I thought that software licenses were meant to *restrict* your freedoms with someone's work, not *grant* them. In other words, if you create some great unlicensed code and leave a printout lying on the table at McDonald's, what law am I breaking by scooping up the printout and making billions with your creation? I thought this was exactly why most people guard as-yet-uncopyrighted works so fiercely. << Chip Morton >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message