From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 19 10:38:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.dti.ne.jp (smtp.dti.ne.jp [210.170.128.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C724415682 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shigio@tamacom.com) Received: from choota.signet.or.jp (PPP57.tama-ap5.dti.ne.jp [210.170.192.75]) by smtp.dti.ne.jp (8.9.0/3.7W) with ESMTP id CAA20721; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:38:17 +0900 (JST) Received: from choota.signet.or.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by choota.signet.or.jp (8.8.8/) with ESMTP id CAA01005; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:27:19 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199909191727.CAA01005@tamacom.com> To: Michael Kennett Cc: shigio@tamacom.com (Shigio Yamaguchi), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL In-reply-to: Message from Michael Kennett of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:09:17 +0800." <199909181409.WAA22184@laurasia.com.au> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:27:19 +0900 From: Shigio Yamaguchi Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Kennett wrote: > As the owner/author of a piece of software, you can distribute the source > code under any license that you like (GNU/BSD/Artistic etc...). Indeed, there > is no reason to choose just a single license under which you distribute your > code -- it should be possible for you to distribute the code under *both* > the GPL and the BSD licenses. It's possible. But it doesn't satisfy the idea of GPL. The purpose of GPL is to keep free software from becoming non-free software. So, distributing codes under both of GPL and a milder license like BSD is meaningless for GPL, because the milder license becomes an escape. I'm not particular about license but couldn't ignore the idea of license. > Does the license really matter? Surely the important consideration is quality > of the code? I agree with you. -- Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation Mail: shigio@tamacom.com, WWW: http://www.tamacom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message