From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 5 11:22:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8BA37B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D034A43E4A for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21300; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:22:06 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105122127.00d89100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:22:03 -0700 To: tempy , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Another license possibility In-Reply-To: <3E179649.50707@softhome.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 07:19 PM 1/4/2003, tempy wrote: >I've been following the debate here, and wondered- what would you think of a modified GPL of sorts that is "dormantly viral" >and only spreads with the functions placed under it? This would be functionally similar to the LGPL, except that it's a bit freer >about how the code can be linked to. Sorry, but "a bit freer" doesn't cut it. If it's viral, it's confiscatory -- and that's not good. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message