From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 19 9:54: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57A937B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13bQei-000M9X-00; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:54:04 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA71857; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:54:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:54:03 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new license idea? Message-ID: <20000919175403.B71735@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000919160157.A70731@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000919104443.00bf44b0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000919104443.00bf44b0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:46:13AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:46:13AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: | IMHO, It's confiscatory whether the changes have to be revealed or not. | The improvements belong to the person who made them, and if he or she | is willing to release them, that's great. But he or she should not | be forced to. What about the fragmentation issue? Someone takes my code, reuses it, keeps the changes, and has created a new, incompatible version? jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message