From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 10 2:49:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0511D37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from madadmin.demon.co.uk ([193.237.103.251] helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15V8uc-0007Wh-01; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:49:03 +0100 Received: from [192.168.10.11] (helo=pan.realtime.co.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15V8pI-0006l7-00; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:43:32 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15V8to-0006qW-00; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:48:12 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Brian T.Schellenberger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT License Question WAS: RE: BSD license question References: <20010809160056.N31629-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <86pua5djgx.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> <01080921493103.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 10 Aug 2001 10:48:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <01080921493103.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> Message-ID: <86y9osi6ub.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian T. Schellenberger writes: > That sounds right to me . . . > > > Personally, I don't see the benefit of doing this. Various people, > > including the Ogg Vorbis team have moved things from GPL to BSD style > > licences to stay friendly with businesses. > > . . . but I don't see how they could do that. The GPL is meant to > prevent you from doing anything to prevent the GPL license from > preventing people from sharing any derivative of the one-GPLed work, > and the greater freedom of the BSD licesnse means that going from > GPL to BSD really makes it more free, but then somebody can make > another "branch" off of the BSD project to make it less free; GPL > would therefore seem to forbid BSDing it. > > So I don't see how you can go in that direction. I don't have the original mail from the xiphorous team, but a quick search shows this link to /. http://www.slashdot.org/articles/01/02/26/1311242.shtml that discusses the change. They did it apparantly with RMS's blessing, so maybe that makes it ok. Having read that, a search of their faq now says that the software is licenced under the GNU GPL. I have _NO_ idea what is going on. I'll find the mailing list archives and dig out the announcement. In the meantime here is a link to the interview :) http://www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_id=26 -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message