From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 22:28:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2976237BCEB for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 16657 invoked from network); 14 May 2000 05:28:51 -0000 Received: from du38.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.38) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 14 May 2000 05:28:51 -0000 Message-ID: <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:32:27 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: No X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Anatoly Vorobey , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > The > > > "party" has full control over it. The "party" can even change the license > > > in the future to whatever it wants, without the author having any say. > > > > This is not grounded in fact. If I release a piece of software under > > GPL, you are *not* free to change the license; in fact, this lack of > > freedom is what is so aggravating about GPL to BSD people in the first > > place! What are you smoking? > > I think he's referring to the "copying" file distributed with many > GPL software, saying that you may distribute it under the GPL version 2, > or "at your discretion, any later version". That is a choice of the > author, who apparently trusts the FSF not to make undesirable changes > to the GPL, but it is not necessary. It is not the choice of the author, but rather the choice of the user. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message