From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 12 22:42:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F66615174 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 22:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10506; Wed, 12 May 1999 23:41:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990512233737.0441e410@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:41:23 -0600 To: cjclark@home.com, adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Cc: kuehl@lgk.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905130247.WAA11499@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <19990512195044.B217@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:47 PM 5/12/99 -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Hmmm... I do not see how that can be true. The _original_ programmer, >the orginial copyright holder, cannot use his own code anyway he would >like? Sure, the copies of the code that are already out there are >really 'out there' and cannot be retroactively un-GNUed, but I don't >see how the original author is prevented from licensing a derivative >work, or even an unmodified version, anyway he sees fit. He may have the right to, but there's no point; no one will license functionality that users now expect to be free. >Huh? What's to stop that same kid from writing a copycat program and >distributing it as Shareware, under other Freeware licensing, or even >putting it in public domain. It's called "getting paid." The GPLed product has poisoned the well; forget about being able to make money from such a product. >I personally don't go to the >extreme that _all_ software should be GNU, but I do think that the >existence of GNU or a foundation actively trying to increase the pool >of GNU software is not evil. It's certainly destructive. It poisons markets and deprives programmers of their livelihoods. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message