From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 17:18:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445F837B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:18:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9C950786E3; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:48:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:48:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: GNU Kernel (was: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <20011213114811.D3448@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011211093550.D4BF638CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011211102645.46795.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> <20011211183001.B67986@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C15CD07.6D5FC2E7@mindspring.com> <20011212131125.A82733@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C16D226.F169C43D@mindspring.com> <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat] On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 20:30:17 +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > +-------[ Terry Lambert ]---------------------- >> >> RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite >> distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to >> work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions, >> I can't see him *not*. Factor that into your decision. > > Just to balance this point out; > > Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has > RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be > a consideration? > > Not everyone has the religious conviction of RMS. In 1983 RMS promised a > kernel for GNU too, it hasn't arrived yet. Sure it has. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message