From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 10:20:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B916C37BAC8 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4GHqJd08603; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:52:19 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kiril Mitev Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL or not (was: Backend in Minivend) Message-ID: <20000516105219.B7949@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <4.3.1.2.20000515122445.04077a10@localhost> <200005161705.RAA01522@loki.ideaglobal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005161705.RAA01522@loki.ideaglobal.com>; from kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 05:05:45PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Kiril Mitev [000516 10:31] wrote: > > A better example, which shows the real danger, is as follows. > > Suppose that you run your e-commerce server on Debian Linux. Under > > Perens' proposed regime, you would be forced to give away (for > > free!) the code you used in your business because it was serving > > the public and running on a GPLed OS. > > > > Talk about a nasty land grab. > > > > --Brett > > Just out of plain idle dumb curiosity - what about all those > non_linux OS'es that are compiled with GCC ? The output of GCC is not GPL'd > (Oh, and mv to -chat, plz) And why couldn't you? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message