From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 14 17:32:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA18428 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA18405 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA29764; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:32:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA28743; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:32:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA13294; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:51:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607142351.BAA13294@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: What's so evil about GPL To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:51:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607142158.RAA05319@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Jul 14, 96 05:58:45 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > . You are forced to become a software redistribution institution > > once you have modified some of the source code, and intend to > > redistrib- ute your modified work. > > Er... Well, to redistribute your work, you normally have to be allied > with a software distributor, right? No. Not if you are a small company serving a dozen or so small customers. It's not your primary interest to distribute software, but to provide solutions then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)