From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 0:46:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBE737B52B for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 00:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-33qtgvj.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.195.243]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA06350 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 03:46:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <391E5B85.B761FFF6@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:53:41 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE 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: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> 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: > It is the choice of the author to use the words "GPL version 2 (or any > later version) applies to this software" or "GPL version 2, and solely > that version, applies to this software", or nothing (which implies the > earlier choice). The author has the choice. > It is the choice of the FreeBSD project to favor non-GPL software whenever practical. Anyway, any such decisions are beyond the author's discretion once they've assigned copyright to Richard M. (Uncle Joe) Stalin. -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message