From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 29 22:38:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D0C14C16 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.54]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA35E2; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:37:50 -0400 Message-ID: <381A8660.F413A228@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:47:12 -0500 From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pablo Baena Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (Not this discussion again...) References: <3819B3EA.845B910A@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19991029144837.A515@eldemonio.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Relax...I am not attacking you. Next time though, it's a good idea to add a subject so that I don't have to make one up ;-). cheers, Pedro. Pablo Baena wrote: > > That's why I asked for an URL instead of starting a discussion. > Besides, I can say that 70% of the software I use right now is GPL'd, > and I don't care of what any person have to say about it, I'll keep > using it. Just want to know what's happening... > Pablo. > > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:49:14AM -0500, Pedro Fernando Giffuni wrote: > > http://www.daemonnews.org/199906/gpl-evil.html > > I wrote that so that I don't have explain it over and over again. I > > wouldn't go as far as saying "don't use any GPL'd software" though... > > > > The GPL has brought so many conflicts on commercial and free projects > > lately that GGI and KDE2 will have a less restricted license ! GGI is > > already BSD-like or artistic, KDE2 will be artistic :). > > > > cheers, > > > > Pedro. > > > > > > Pablo Baena wrote: > > > > > > What's the deal with GPL? Any URL to see what's this all about with > > > GPL and FreeBSD. I do not use Linux right now, but I do use lots of > > > GNU software, and FreeBSD with it, so I'd like to know more about > > > that subject. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Pablo > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:06:58PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > > > At 03:21 PM 10/28/1999 -0700, Todd Meister wrote: > > > > >On 28-Oct-99 Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > > I've considered using AbiWord, but it's GPLed. (Not trying to start a flame > > > > > > war here; just pointing it out.) > > > > > > > > > >That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. "That" being the implication > > > that > > > > >using GPLed software is a bad idea. > > > > > > > > It is a VERY bad idea, since the more it is used, the more it accomplishes the > > > > GPL's purpose. But again, this is a subject for a flame war I do not have time > > > > for right now. > > > > > > > > --Brett > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message