From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 17:33:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BA537B405; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 05C1F786E3; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:03:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:03:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , "Gary W. Swearingen" , hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, "Brandon D. Valentine" , Hiten Pandya , chat@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <20011218120345.D21649@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011214122837.O3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C19807D.C441F084@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011214175450.02da2a90@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011215232233.00e74cc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011216221810.031b6820@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217001345.00e26280@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217092958.0299fdf0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217092958.0299fdf0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 17 December 2001 at 9:33:29 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:27 AM 12/17/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> Not true. The FreeBSD Project would be obliged to license the entire >>> kernel -- source and binary -- under the GPL. >> >> That is a complete and utter contradiction of what Stallman said. I >> see that you carefully removed his words: >> >>> The kernel code released under the revised BSD license will continue >>> to be under the revised BSD license; it is only the *combination as >>> a whole* that will be covered by the GPL--if and when the >>> GPL-covered code is included in it. > > That's right. That means that every FreeBSD CD-ROM must be GPLed. > So must the kernel as a whole. I find it amazing how you can make claims like this in the face of all evidence, and that you again remove such evidence as doesn't fit into your claims: > If someone links a kernel without that GPL-covered code, the GPL > won't apply to that kernel. You carefully removed that sentence from the paragraph above. Obviously your intentions are dishonourable, to stir up discontent, not to come to an equitable solution. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message