From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 2 11:59: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from uumail-relay-blr.ernet.in (uumail-relay-blr.ernet.in [202.141.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3308D1558C for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: from iisc.ernet.in (iisc.ernet.in [144.16.64.3]) by uumail-relay-blr.ernet.in (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id AAA00865; Mon, 3 May 1999 00:25:58 +0530 Received: from physics.iisc.ernet.in by iisc.ernet.in (ERNET-IISc/SMI-4.1) id AAA08770; Mon, 3 May 1999 00:17:29 +0530 (GMT+0530) Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in by physics.iisc.ernet.in (ERNET-IISc/SMI-4.1) id SAA18643; Sun, 2 May 1999 18:51:59 GMT Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 00:28:31 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Laurence Berland Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgra In-Reply-To: <372C9BD8.5C24D091@confusion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > that if it does something bad I can't be blamed. If you consider the goal of > the GPL to be to preserve the free redistributability (is that a word?) of a > piece of software, then the GPL does just that. That is exactly the goal of the GPL. To put it another way, the BSD licence may give more freedom to the next programmer; but then, users all the way down the line below that can lose their freedom. The GPL's aim is to prevent that. > On a side note, lets try and convince the authors of some GPL software we use > to rerelease it under the BSD license. How can they do that? There is one > group that can make a non-GPL version of GPL software, that group being the > copyright holder. They can break their own license, and the only one who could > sue them would be themselves. :) Practical point: unless it's written by one or very few people, you'll never succeed. Most of the interesting and well-established programs contain contributions from 100s of people and they'll all have to agree to change the licence. That apart, I think the idea sucks anyway... This is getting way off track from my original post (which was, advocate FreeBSD but don't diss others) so I'll shut up now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message