From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 23 12:33:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2450311375 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10FOWQ-0000r9-00; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:33:39 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id UAA08924; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:32:39 GMT Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00290; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:30:52 GMT (envelope-from marko) Message-ID: <19990223203052.B216@localhost> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:30:52 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Narvi Cc: Brett Glass , dyson@iquest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act References: <36D2AF58.A2FB5E82@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Narvi on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:30:48PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:30:48PM +0200, Narvi wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > If FreeBSD Inc. were to take GPL'd code and add it to the source tree > > under a Berkeley-style licence what could the FSF do about it? The 2 > > comments quoted above suggest that the FSF could possibly afford legal > > action against FreeBSD, but what if it was Sun, IBM, M$ etc. I can't > > believe that they could afford to take on a company of that size. > > > > a) it would be the worst thing to do - for FreeBSD a complete PR > catastrophe. > b) they would not depend upon courts but on publicity and flaming and > boycotts, etc. > I realize that, and that is, I suspect, the main reason why we respect the terms of the GPL (even if we don't agree with them). What I was more interested in was the legal situation if a commercial organization were to use GPL'd code in that way. I hardly think M$ would be concerned about bad PR from the Linux world. -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message