From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 2:33: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCF714F97 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id LAA03568; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:29:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id LAA91530; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:33:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990908113302.24553@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:33:02 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld To: Terry Lambert Cc: bright@wintelcom.net, davids@webmaster.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, walton@nordicrecords.com Subject: Re: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause References: <19990903111035.34383@ns.int.ftf.net> <199909080052.RAA16284@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199909080052.RAA16284@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:52:55AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: > In point of fact, the danger lies in two areas: > > 1) Dilution of intellectual property rights, specifically > implicit grants of license to use process patents when > the patented process is embodied in software. Right -- also called a "brain drain" or "money drain" :-) > 2) Commercial companies expect to benefit from expenditures, > to the point of recovering them, plus some profit margin. [...] Fair enough, and a good explanation. > > There was a very good interview (in one Login of L. Peter Deutsch about > > his writing Ghostscript, and why he regretted using the GPL). > > I would be interested in obtaining a pointer to this interview, if > you have it. I will look it up on the usenix site. > Can you provide one example of a monumental undertaking which would > not exist without the GPL? Not offhand, no -- I will try and find some though :-) Mind you, I was in no way trying to defend the GPL -- I was merely hoping someone would come out and make things clear (the way you just did). -- Division by Zero error -- multiplying by zero to recover. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message