Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:29:22 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Message-ID: <4.1.19990208152613.046278a0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902081602060.18645-100000@mercury.webnology .com> References: <4.1.19990208133546.04530e80@mail.lariat.org>
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At 04:07 PM 2/8/99 -0600, Jasper O'Malley wrote: >But by doing so, you negate your own arguments to this point. By your own >line of reasoning, BSD code that's integrated into GPLed projects isn't >developmentally dead; it's just entered a proprietary product, more or >less. Unfortunately, it's not proprietary; it's something significantly different. It's part of a product whose purpose is to destroy the market for commercial products. >If someone snarks BSD code and sticks it in a commercial product, >you don't get the benefit of future development unless they voluntarily >release their proprietary code additions. Likewise, if you simply consider >all GPLed products "dead," I fail to see how incorporating BSD code >into GPLed projects differs from incorporating BSD code into proprietary >projects whose source code will never see the public light of day. I wouldn't call them "dead;" I'd call them "killers." They'd like to kill both "evil" commercial software and those annoying BSDers who support it. --Brett "Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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