From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 20 14:24:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05099 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yonge.cs.toronto.edu (yonge.cs.toronto.edu [128.100.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA05091 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dholland@cs.toronto.edu) Received: from qew.cs.toronto.edu ([128.100.2.15]) by yonge.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <86514-3191>; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:24:07 -0400 Received: by qew.cs.toronto.edu id <37814-9002>; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:23:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD From: David Holland To: jooji@webnology.com (Jasper O'Malley) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:23:52 -0400 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jasper O'Malley" at Oct 20, 98 05:15:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <98Oct20.172357edt.37814-9002@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- - David A. Holland | (please continue to send non-list mail to dholland@cs.utoronto.ca | dholland@hcs.harvard.edu. yes, I moved.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message