From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Feb 27 17:25:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DB237B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:25:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F0043FA3 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown[12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003022801251905200pspcde>; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:25:19 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1S1NG5F017663; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h1S1NAMa017658; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Willie Viljoen Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly apologizes for calling BSD "Free Software" References: <200302261224.54884.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <3E5E70F8.85AE964@mindspring.com> <200302271306.26357.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200302272338.28371.will@unfoldings.net> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 27 Feb 2003 17:23:10 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200302272338.28371.will@unfoldings.net> Message-ID: <4xof4xyz9d.f4x@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Willie Viljoen writes: > The point is that the GNU people's idea of "free" is very distorted, in both > its possible meanings. An example of that distortion occurs in the GPL where it says "BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, ...". In fact, its license on the right to publish derivatives is NOT free of charge; the charge is a cross-license (under GPL) of the deriver's work, which may have significant value as recognized in copyright law (17 USC): The term "financial gain" includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works. So don't let anyone tell you that the GPL license is a free-as-in-beer license, in general. (Some rights are licensed for no cost, I believe, but some say even those are licensed for the "consideration" of not holding the licensor liable for damages, bugs, etc.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message