From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 21:13:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62D437B419 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:13:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06982; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:13:06 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221059.02843e50@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:13:00 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop In-Reply-To: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 06:40 PM 12/17/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: >I can't be bothered to reply to any more of the GPL thread. It's >clear that we have in the project a vocal minority of rabid anti-GNU >people who ignore the facts, Not so. These people recognize the dangers of the GPL. The fact that YOU personally would like to turn a blind eye to these dangers does not make the threat any less real. If you want to drop out of the thread so as to stick your head in the sand, so be it. The discussion would be more productive if you did. >But only to that kernel, which is a binary. The only effect the GPL >has on a binary is to require the supplier to also supply the source >code on request. Dead wrong. That source code must also be GPLed. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message