Date: 23 Feb 1999 12:14:59 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL issues Message-ID: <7au2jj$ehs$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19990223031602.E088B46688@pobox.com> <4.1.19990222201937.00977b90@mail.lariat.org>
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Brett,
it seems to me that freebsd-chat is entirely the wrong place to fight
the GPL. Why don't you sit back, wipe the foam off your mouth, and write
a well-reasoned paper comparing several "free" licenses, or why the BSD
license is preferable to GPL, or some such. An eloquent document to
point people to would do the community a much better service than loads
of emotionally charged, transient flaming.
For most people I know the GPL is *the* license. It's the license that
covers all that great software (Linux, gcc, Emacs, GNU *, KDE, ...), so
it must be the best, no? People tend to accept it uncritically. Now, if
I point somebody to the BSD license, the answer will inevitably be "but
it allows Microsoft to rip off my code". To make some headway I need
something to point people to that discontructs this myth.
You are spending a prodigious amount of time preaching to the converted
and putting them off of you personally. Why not do something
constructive instead?
EUR 0.02,
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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