From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 23 04:19:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA29241 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from notabene.zer0.org (sac-port387.jps.net [209.63.247.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA29229 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@n1.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by notabene.zer0.org (8.8.7/8.8.8) id EAA10710; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19980823041842.A924@notabene.zer0.org> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:18:42 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remark from Nick Petreley References: <199808222241.QAA26221@lariat.lariat.org> <199808221921.NAA24991@lariat.lariat.org> <199808221921.NAA24991@lariat.lariat.org> <19980822135700.J924@notabene.zer0.org> <199808222241.QAA26221@lariat.lariat.org> <19980822162831.N924@notabene.zer0.org> <199808230107.TAA27100@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199808230107.TAA27100@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:07:07PM -0600 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:07:07PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:28 PM 8/22/98 -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > >When you say things like: > > [Quotes elided] > > You're quoting my remarks out of context. You should print the absurd and > outrageous remarks to which I was responding. To which you responded with the quoted absurd and outrageous remarks, which makes you no less a zealot than the more radical defenders of GNU. Not everyone automagically believes GPL == death. In fact, I just prepared a piece of my software to be released under the GPL. I chose it over the Artistic and XFree86 style licenses because I feel it is more appropriate for the software -- an antispam package. Anyone can use it, even the accursed spammers (who would use it if it benefitted them anyway, no matter what the licensing said), but nobody packages and sells what I wrote to benefit the Net. The next time I have a piece of software to release, I won't just choose GPL because I've used it before. I'll evaluate again and decide what will be the most appropriate license. Like I said, there's room for both out there, and your actions are trying to limit people's options just as the GPL-only camp's are. And after all, isn't "freedom to choose, freedom to use" what Open Source is all about? Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message