Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:23:52 -0400 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: jooji@webnology.com (Jasper O'Malley) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <98Oct20.172357edt.37814-9002@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810201605110.13084-100000@mercury.webnology.com> from "Jasper O'Malley" at Oct 20, 98 05:15:15 pm
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> > 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
Please, take it to gnu.misc.discuss, or at least -chat.
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