From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 21:17:20 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 9953437B41C for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:17:17 -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 WAA07021; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:17:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221419.02844e40@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:16:57 -0700 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Cc: FreeBSD Chat In-Reply-To: <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <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 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