Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 15:25:17 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rsync Message-ID: <29566.836259917@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 1996 22:57:37 %2B1000." <199607011257.WAA05320@suburbia.net>
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> I whole-heartedly support the GPL philosophy. Even though it has gone > out of vouge. New information is built on and from existing information. > The speed that information evolves in complexity and function is > directly related how available it is. Retardation of information flows > decreases the efficiency and efficacity of human knowledge. Uh, I sense an impending GPL debate and I think that it would be most unwise to do so in the -hackers mailing list; we have more than enough traffic as it is. :-( Let it simply suffice for me to say that *whatever* attractions a given license may hold, it's been the project's overall philosophy that the simpler a license is, almost regardless of its intent, the better. We don't want to place ANY restrictions on what people do with our software, up to and including making a million bucks off of it if someone really has the motivation to try and make that happen (and if somebody's willing to pay that kind of money, it must mean our software's pretty good :-). The recent removal of BSD copyright clauses 3 and 4 from many of our own contributions only underscores our desire to simplify things, and whatever else you might say about the GPL, it's NOT a simple license. :-) Jordan
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