From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 27 9:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3973215828 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 12Dsze-0002w2-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:46:07 -0700 Message-ID: <38908586.A6694C36@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:51:02 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Marc Schneiders , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/13644 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Marc Schneiders wrote: > > >I just happen to have bought an emacs book yesterday and read a bit. I > >have two things that I cannot get clear for myself: > > > >1. Is it 'done' on BSD? The book gave me the idea that emacs is a real > >GNU thing, so much 'hallelujah' in it. I don't mind that, but wouldn't > >like to jump into learning it all, if it isn't really supported in > >BSD-circles. And I want to be politically correct of course :-) > > I just realized what you are getting at. I was wondering the same > thing. Without starting a flame war, if Stallman represents and > advances the polar opposite of what the BSD license represents, can we > still support his product so heartily? SOme people go to the extreme > of not using programs like AbiWord simply because they are > GPLed. Others say, 'if you like the program, use it!' Tough call. Different licenses are appropriate for different kinds of software. I personally have no problems with the GPL for applications like Emacs, which are an optional part of any system. Where I don't like the GPL is in the operating system itself, which prevents its use in binary-only distributions in embedded (or single-purpose) products. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message