From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 14:51:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DB6537BB8D for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 14:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 73463 invoked from network); 16 May 2000 21:51:11 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 16 May 2000 21:51:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 13325 invoked by uid 211); 16 May 2000 21:51:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 03:21:11 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Scheidt Cc: David Schwartz , Anatoly Vorobey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000517032110.G13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000517023312.B13129@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:16:07PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > It is *already* out there under version 2. Nobody will be *forced* to > > reissue it under version 3. If Microsoft did do what you say, it > > would be no worse than if they took BSD code and put their own license > > on it -- they can't take back the earlier license from people who > > already received it. It will not stop people distributing existing > > versions, developing them further under GPL 2, and *not* putting GPL 3 > > on it. > > Yes. Of course. But the rhetoric around the GPL is that it means the > software is always free, and something like this simply can't happen. > Clearly, under the language that stuff gets licensed under, it could. Ah, the rhetoric is a different matter. Of course it can happen. It can also happen that the courts rule some aspect of the GPL invalid.... R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message