Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:58:54 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" Message-ID: <19980422115854.49089@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 10:55:46AM -0500 References: <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org> <19980421172759.60471@follo.net> <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org>
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In <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org>, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > OTOH, GPL is so restrictive that commercial providers (like netscape) > can't contribute to it. Eric Raymond and Linus are indeed promoting more > BSD-like licenses. > Take a look at > http://www.opensource.org/ Hm, the bottom of http://www.opensource.org/osd.html says: 10. Example Licenses. The GNU GPL, BSD, X Consortium, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that we consider conformant to the Open Source Definition. I didn't find wordings that are against the GPL. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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