From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 24 20:12:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51A1E37B7D7 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 20:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 25138 invoked from network); 25 May 2000 03:12:32 -0000 Received: from du138.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.138) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 25 May 2000 03:12:32 -0000 Message-ID: <392C5F8D.198A6D2B@mail.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:02:37 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: No X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513192827.00895a10@mail85.pair.com> <20000514040731.B17455@happy.checkpoint.com> <391E27DD.320D4BBF@mail.ptd.net> <20000514024308.A57423@sasami.jurai.net> <392475F3.513EE781@mail.ptd.net> <20000520185544.A47143@happy.checkpoint.com> <39270B29.D09AA59D@mail.ptd.net> <20000521160901.A215@happy.checkpoint.com> <4.3.1.2.20000521125607.041b0100@localhost> <20000524205510.A20671@happy.checkpoint.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > Well, source code IS functional, and some of it is certainly provably > optimal. So, it might not be protected. The statute specifically provides for the copyrighting of code. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message