From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 23 17:51:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 858B111C2B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 20252 invoked from network); 24 Feb 1999 01:51:03 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 24 Feb 1999 01:51:03 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA04896; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:51:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902240151.UAA04896@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act In-Reply-To: <19990223220438.C216@localhost> from Mark Ovens at "Feb 23, 99 10:04:38 pm" To: marko@uk.radan.com (Mark Ovens) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:51:02 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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