From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 21 13:40:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from esperi.demon.co.uk (esperi.demon.co.uk [194.222.138.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F2D1166C for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kieran@esperi.demon.co.uk) Received: from cuchulainn.tirnanog (1101@cuchulainn.tirnanog [192.168.1.68]) by esperi.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00792; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:28:43 GMT Received: from localhost (kieran@localhost) by cuchulainn.tirnanog (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA29138; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:28:20 GMT Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:28:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Kieran X-Sender: kieran@cuchulainn.tirnanog To: "K. Marsh" Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Common Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, K. Marsh wrote: > The point I was trying to make was that you can't sell your software for > profit, UNLESS you distribute the source code too (thereby giving away > the secrets of your program.) This is right, isn't it Christ? FreeBSD's > license doesn't require you to give away your source. Wrong. The GPL doesn't allow you to distribute someone else's code in binary form. If you are dealing with your own code, obviously you can re-licence it. It represents a different world-view. The BSD networking code which _many_ different unices borrowed/used would not have been used had they been distributed under the GPL. So both licences have real advantages depending on the views of the person writing it. Please, if you think this is a balanced account, don't respond! (Feel free to flame away if you think that I'm wrong.) The world doesn't need another GPL-vs-BSD "discussion" ;-) Kieran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message