Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:16:57 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221419.02844e40@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com>
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At 10:07 PM 12/17/2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >It's suprised me that it took almost 5 months on the MLs and 6 months >before that on the NG for me to see the subject come up in even this >half-serious -chat thread. People like Greg have tried to squelch discussion of the issue. >A problem with that statement is that it isn't true; another effect the >GPL has on a binary is to require the source to be licensed under the >GPL too. One is a mere translation of the other and if one is a >GPL-licensed "program", then the other must be too. It's all spelled out >there in the GPL. That part is even clear. > >A problem with the effect is that it might cost us time and money and >legal liability to also supply the source code on request if we are >distributing an embedded kernel. I have now worked on several embedded versions of FreeBSD. My clients would not want to have that code confiscated by the GPL; in fact, it would be disastrous for them if it happened. >Another is that we might not like >spending a penny to satisfy the bullying tactics of Stallman. The >GPL could easily have an exception for other free software without >harming anything but Stallman's desire to bully people into doing it >his way in his quest to punish closed-source software developers. Agree 100%. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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