From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 8 14:36:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17400 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17392 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:36:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA16015; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:36:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990208152613.046278a0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:29:22 -0700 To: "Jasper O'Malley" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990208133546.04530e80@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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