From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 21 14:13:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gold.com.br (gold-2.horizontes.com.br [200.215.160.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B3610E9A for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcrhp@iname.com) Received: from iname.com (line0352.horizontes.com.br [200.215.163.61]) by gold.com.br (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA00583 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:13:47 -0300 Message-ID: <36D08522.35D5B975@iname.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:13:54 -0300 From: "" Nando Augusto 95r "" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Common Question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What's GPL? Kieran wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message