From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 20 22:56:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555BD37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1076"@[136.142.22.44]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K50FFJKEJA002N52@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:56:12 EST Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:58:01 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: Mercury News forum slanted toward GPL To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Brett Glass Message-id: <3B31B719.D085C967@pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010620105255.05427dc0@localhost> <01062020335002.00320@nomad.home> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I honestly don't see the benefit of the discussion. Microsoft will not release it's code under the GPL, Linux will not be relicensed. Furthermore.the people discussing things are not core developers, and except for Stallman, have little or no influence on relicensing anything. IMHO the amount of dust that will be raised will not achieve anything against or in favor of the BSDs. Want to make it interesting? Invite Theo :). Pedro. David Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 10:02 am, Brett Glass wrote: > > The San Jose Mercury News has just announced a "Roundtable" in which > > "experts" on open source software and a representative or two of > > Microsoft will debate licensing issues. It's described at > > > > http://www.siliconvalley.com/roundtable/ > > I see from the current list that we have an unusual mix of panelists. Since > you are now added to the list, there is a representative of the "fanatical" > wing of BSD included (no offense intended). I would also like to see the > "moderate" wing represented. > > One suggestion is Brian Behlendorf. He is not a member of the BSD community > per-se, but he is a core member of Apache which uses a BSD-like license, and > a member of the Open Source Initiative. Apache is the most successful Open > Source project to date, and it ain't under the GPL. > > -- > David Johnson > ___________________ > http://www.usermode.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message