Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 01:38:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jmb@hub.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: mellon@pobox.com, tms2@mail.ptd.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <200005170138.SAA08616@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000514115701.AE00637B608@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at May 14, 2000 04:57:01 AM
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> copyright is the result of laws passed by congress. No. Copyright in the U.S. is a result of the idea of securing limited rights to authors and inventors in exchange for disclosure of their work in order to promote progress in the arts and sciences. This was codified by the U.S. founders in the U.S. Constitution. The laws are merely an instrumentality, as the GPL is an instrumentality of the GNU Manifesto (and not a very good one at that; the eCOS license is much more aligned with the goals of the GNU Manifesto than the GPL). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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