From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 22 14:41:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00906 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from notabene.zer0.org (sac-port55.jps.net [209.63.114.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00891; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@n1.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by notabene.zer0.org (8.8.7/8.8.8) id OAA19223; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19980722144350.F15764@notabene.zer0.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:43:50 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction References: <19980722000542.56979@futuresouth.com> <19980721223151.B15764@notabene.zer0.org> <19980722165304.57689@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <19980722165304.57689@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:53:04PM +0200 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:53:04PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:31:51PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > I know this will just stir up trouble in the thread, but... > > if X11 was free software instead of just open source, TOG couldn't have > > changed the license to a semicommercial one. > > This is wrong. If it had been locked-down software (e.g, GPL) as > opposed to free software, they couldn't have added more licensing > terms. With any fully free license (the type the FreeBSD project > encourage :-) this could be done. Anybody could take most of the > FreeBSD sources and do the same thing - however, we'd be likely to > out-develop them, so it isn't of real interest. Sorry, I made an unstated assumption. Locked-down free software is what I should have said. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message