Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:13:28 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Miguel Mendez" <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: GPL vs BSD Licence Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEJGEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041031105926.4f06b06f.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Miguel Mendez [mailto:flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org] > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:59 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: davids@webmaster.com; chat@freebsd.org; TM4525@aol.com > Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence > > > I don't know if you're aware of this, but this kind is *useless* > discussion has been going on on the mailing lists for *years*. Check > groups.google.com and you'll see that everything you might want to add > about GPL vs BSD has already been said a hundred times. John Dyson > posted a lot about it, then Brett Glass did for a while, and now you. > Have you ever stopped a minute to think about why this is? FreeBSD is not a dead operating system. Every day there are dozens if not hundreds of NEW UERS who have NEVER encountered these 'useless discussions'. To them, these discussions are not uninteresting, and provide much needed background. Furthermore the topics keep coming up because these licenses are being applied all of the time to new software packages all of the time. There are always new situations that these licenses are being used in. > If the time wasted on these rants had gone into writing software we'd > have a 100% BSDL system today. My very humble suggestion is that you > please take this somewhere else. I've never seen a GPL advocate 'see the > light' and start licensing his software under the BSD license after > having a conversation with a BSD 'zealot', or vice versa. > You probably missed the issue if you think this is a discussion meant to convince someone BSD is better than GPL. The people on this list already KNOW that BSD is better than GPL. They don't need convincing. What they DO need to know, however, is WHY. That is educational discussion not useless argument. My humble suggestion to you is that you shake off the idea you seem to have that the ultimate goal is a 'finished' 100% BSDL system. If that ever happened, BSD would be dead. Minix is a 'finished' system. Xenix is a 'finished' system. Covalent is a 'finished' system. FreeBSD is not, and hopefully never will be. Ted
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