From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 20 14:08:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03350 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03340 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13467 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:15:15 -0500 (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:15:15 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199810201921.MAA00548@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > The hypocrisy comes from misleadingly calling this "free". I don't think it's misleading at all. The software costs nothing, and the source is available to anyone who wants it. Sounds pretty free to me. > If it were truly free, Brett could do what he liked with it. In point > of fact, GPL'ed code is no more "free" than proprietary code. How so? Proprietary code costs money. GPL code is by its nature free for anyone to read or incorporate into their own work. If they don't like the caveats that come with the freedom to incorporate, tough nuts. Then they do what Brett is doing, and start from scratch. In the end, though, authors still have a right to determine how their work is used and/or distributed; if they're philosophically opposed to the concept of closed-source proprietary software, they use the GPL. I'm not a particularly big fan of the GPL myself, but I completely understand the motives of those who are. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message