From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 27 9:16:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A41937B426 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:16:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0329.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.74] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16g7h1-0002mX-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:16:39 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7D1454.6957B09E@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:16:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Krueger Cc: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First test of GPL in court References: <20020227122820.A64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227142005.A16555@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020227132417.B64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227052928.L12253@rain.macguire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Benjamin Krueger wrote: > I can't say I agree. When you license under the GPL, you enter a contract. The > meaning of this specific contract is pretty well understood, and if you don't > understand it, well, don't use it. You can't just decide one day that you want > to forfeit that contract just because it doesn't suit your needs (or wants) > anymore. You should have thought of that before you used that license. The > BSD license has been an option for a long time, you know. ;) > > I wish I could just forfeit any contracts I didn't want to deal with > anymore... I might be richer for it. ;) A contract is only valid if there is consideration exchanged. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message