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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:21:58 -0500
From:      misnagid <misnagid@usa.net>
To:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
Cc:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Subject:   Re: GPL vs BSD Licence
Message-ID:  <1099214518.3560.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20041031105926.4f06b06f.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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I'll second that Miguel!  Thanks!!

Jerr


On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 04:59, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:36:42 -0700
> "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys,
> 
> > 95% of the GPL advocates out there don't know the first damn thing
> > about the GPL and undoubtedly have never completely read through
> > the thing, MUCH LESS have read the supporting philosophy and writing
> > around it.  I see GPL bigots ALL THE TIME arguing about how great
> > GPL code is and how the GPL is so all fired wonderful because of this
> > and that which isn't even IN the damn license!!!
> 
> I don't know if you're aware of this, but this kind is *useless*
> discussion has been going on on the mailing lists for *years*. Check
> groups.google.com and you'll see that everything you might want to add
> about GPL vs BSD has already been said a hundred times. John Dyson
> posted a lot about it, then Brett Glass did for a while, and now you.
> 
> If the time wasted on these rants had gone into writing software we'd
> have a 100% BSDL system today. My very humble suggestion is that you
> please take this somewhere else. I've never seen a GPL advocate 'see the
> light' and start licensing his software under the BSD license after
> having a conversation with a BSD 'zealot', or vice versa.
> 
> /me goes back to lurking...
> 
> Cheers,
-- 
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