From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 28 23:34:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from TercerMundo.com.ar (millennium.tercermundo.com.ar [200.16.223.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B90114E7E for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 23:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from PBaena@TercerMundo.com.ar) Received: from TercerMundo.com.ar by TercerMundo.com.ar with RAW (MDaemon.v2.8.5.0.R) for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:36:37 -0300 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:36:37 -0300 From: "Pablo Baena" Subject: To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: PBaena@TercerMundo.com.ar Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Actual-From: PBaena@TercerMundo.com.ar X-Mailer: WebPOP v3.01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What's the deal with GPL? Any URL to see what's this all about with GPL and FreeBSD. I do not use Linux right now, but I do use lots of GNU software, and FreeBSD with it, so I'd like to know more about that subject. Thanks. Pablo On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:06:58PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:21 PM 10/28/1999 -0700, Todd Meister wrote: > >On 28-Oct-99 Brett Glass wrote: > > > I've considered using AbiWord, but it's GPLed. (Not trying to start a flame > > > war here; just pointing it out.) > > > >That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. "That" being the implication that > >using GPLed software is a bad idea. > > It is a VERY bad idea, since the more it is used, the more it accomplishes the > GPL's purpose. But again, this is a subject for a flame war I do not have time > for right now. > > --Brett -- "It was a time the sky seemed so bright and blue. A time I believed it could carry a song straight into heaven" Myung Fan Lone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message