From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 8 09:16:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00419 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:16:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00411 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id SAA91856; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:15:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: "Jasper O'Malley" Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Brett Glass , Greg Lehey , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Gregory Sutter , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Feb 1999 18:15:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Jasper O'Malley"'s message of "Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:21:31 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jasper O'Malley" writes: > On 8 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > If that was really their only motivation, they'd use something > > non-contagious. The contagion element of the GPL buys the developer > > nothing; > Sure it does. It says, "if you've got a piece of software that's got 90% > or my code in it and 10% of yours, you can't sell it unless you make the > source code available." Why should I need to make my 10% available? Is it not enough that I make your 90% available? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message