From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 20 14:30:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05989 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05977 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:30:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13113; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:29:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id QAA06877; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:29:24 -0500 Message-ID: <19981020162923.17640@right.PCS> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:29:23 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: "Jasper O'Malley" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD References: <199810201921.MAA00548@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Jasper O'Malley on Oct 10, 1998 at 04:15:15PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Oct 10, 1998 at 04:15:15PM -0500, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > 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. Hmm. Please note that this is the _same_ case as with any software that you obtain with an NDA: ``the software costs nothing'', and ``the source is available to anyone who wants it'', with the third line being ``as long as you agree to our terms''. So you could argue that the GPL is just another form of an NDA. I wouldn't say that software under an NDA is free, so the same for the GPL. -- Jonathan (It depends on how free your definition of `free' is. :-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message