From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 17:54:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C453537B762 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA17178; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:54:02 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 17:54:02 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005140054.RAA17178@sharmas.dhs.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > > Stallman's idea is that software author has no rights. He produces > something, but it does not belong to him. It belongs to the masses. The > "party" has full control over it. The "party" can even change the license > in the future to whatever it wants, without the author having any say. Just to make sure that everyone understands what you're saying, if you make changes to some "core" GNU software (gcc or emacs), GNU project will not incorporate the code, unless you reassign the copyright to FSF. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message