From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 22 02:59:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07856 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 02:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07850 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:58:55 GMT (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id LAA05269; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:58:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980422115854.49089@cons.org> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:58:54 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Eivind Eklund Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" References: <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org> <19980421172759.60471@follo.net> <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 10:55:46AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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