From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 8 11:27:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15395 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:27:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15380 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id FAA29008; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:56:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id FAA50809; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:56:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:56:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Licia , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Message-ID: <19990209055655.P86778@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.1.19990208113442.00c08cd0@mail.lariat.org> <2620.918495440@zippy.cdrom.com> <4.1.19990208113442.00c08cd0@mail.lariat.org> <19990208141042.A2652@tidalwave.net> <4.1.19990208121541.0457d5d0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208121541.0457d5d0@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:18:33PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 8 February 1999 at 12:18:33 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:10 PM 2/8/99 -0500, Lee Cremeans wrote: > >> Brett, you're missing the point yet again. The BSD license as we see it is >> free to _all_ comers, no matter what bent they may be -- GPL, proprietary, >> even (*shudder*) Microsoft. Putting a "poison pill" in the license would >> make it just as distasteful to the champions of free software as the GPL is >> to corporations. Like Jordan said, this is one of the great things about the >> license we have now; it doesn't assume that one group of users is inherently >> "evil". > > I don't see it as a matter of good and evil but as a matter of basic fairness. > I don't think it's good to offer the code on one set of terms to users and > on another (very onerous) set of terms to commercial developers. I'd like to see > some ideas about how to avoid this! For example, should I write a whizzy > new driver for FreeBSD, I'd hate to see it incorporated into Linux when > my intent is to promote BSD-licensed software. Why should incorporating it into Linux be worse than incorporating it into System V? That's where the greatest proportion of the BSD code has gone. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message