Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:51:55 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VGltbyBTY2jCmm9lbGVy?= <timo.schoeler@riscworks.net> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <47873C3B.1070008@riscworks.net> In-Reply-To: <478735A5.7050307@gmail.com> References: <47873174.4040802@gmail.com> <3648.1200043092@critter.freebsd.dk> <20080111092015.GA17702@freebie.xs4all.nl> <478735A5.7050307@gmail.com>
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thus Aryeh M. Friedman spake: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wilko Bulte wrote: >> Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp, who wrote on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at >> 09:18:12AM +0000 .. >>> In message <47873174.4040802@gmail.com>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" >>> writes: >>> >>>>> Ny scheme that depends on us changing the license is a >>>>> non-starter for both practical (we'd need to get everybodys >>>>> acceptance of that, and piss of a large number of users who >>>>> have cleared the BSD license with their laywers) and >>>>> ideological (we don't want to create uncertainty about the >>>>> well known and deeply established BSD license). >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The revision I am suggesting [...] >>> It does not matter. The BSD license will not be changed for the >>> reasons I stated. >>> >>> It ain't gonna happen. >>> >>> All you're doing now is hurting your case by annoyingly keeping >>> barking up the wrong tree. >> Worse, it is hurting FreeBSD because it burns committer cycles that >> better be spent on doing something sensible instead of arguing >> about a license change that will never happen. >> > > If one never tries to change something then it will never get changed > and dismissing something as impossible from the get go is the hight of > close mindiness (which everyone is accusing me of when the fact is I > was not the one that started using dishonest debating methods) One might try to change something if it's broken. The license is not.home | help
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