From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 9 08:17:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04177 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA04169 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 16026 invoked from network); 9 Feb 1999 16:17:20 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 9 Feb 1999 16:17:20 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA10735; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:17:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902091617.LAA10735@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) In-Reply-To: <19990208141042.A2652@tidalwave.net> from Lee Cremeans at "Feb 8, 99 02:10:42 pm" To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:17:20 -0500 (EST) Cc: brett@lariat.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, licia@o-o.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lee Cremeans said: > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:37:01AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > At 09:37 AM 2/8/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > I see your point about the language. Still I strongly believe that, > > if we do not place a "poison pill" against the GPL in our licenses, > > we will see the GPL subsume all else. If you were to add something > > that would prevent open source code from being relicensed under > > the GPL, how would you phrase it? > > > > Brett, you're missing the point yet again. The BSD license as we see it is > free to _all_ comers, no matter what bent they may be -- GPL, proprietary, > even (*shudder*) Microsoft. Putting a "poison pill" in the license would > make it just as distasteful to the champions of free software as the GPL is > to corporations. Like Jordan said, this is one of the great things about the > license we have now; it doesn't assume that one group of users is inherently > "evil". > The standard BSD license is already poison pilled. In fact, it is quite fair by requiring attribution. Just be sure to provide an extra 20-30K of CDROM space for attribution. :-). One other reason for not publicizing the use of BSD code, is the advertisment clause. That is actually a disadvantage. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message