Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:51:02 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: marko@uk.radan.com (Mark Ovens) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <199902240151.UAA04896@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <19990223220438.C216@localhost> from Mark Ovens at "Feb 23, 99 10:04:38 pm"
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Mark Ovens said: > On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:09:23PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > One of the basis of my beliefs is to follow the licenses of others, in > > meaning and legally. I could not knowingly violate someone elses license > > and be happy with myself. > > Which, of course, is the right and proper thing to do. > > > In a sense, the GPL world is depending on > > the honor of those who it is most destructive. > > > > This confirms what I thought. The GPL and Berkeley-style licence > work more through a "Gentlemens Agreement" than the threat of a > law suit and, as another poster pointed out, a PR disaster if, for > example, FreeBSD were to hijack GPL code and release it under a > Berkeley-style licence. > That isn't exactly what I really meant. GPL aspires to high values of a sort of morality. However, it is easy to ignore what is being traded away. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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