Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:22:05 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218101449.02a3a360@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011218110645.A2061@tisys.org> References: <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain>
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At 03:06 AM 12/18/2001, Nils Holland wrote: >One thing I do agree with, though, >is that all this licensing stuff is something the project could better do >without. I agree 100%! And the only way to be free of it is simply not to incorporate GPLed code. Otherwise, we WILL be bitten. As I've mentioned in an earlier posting, it is a fundamental part of the FSF's agenda and philosophy to oppose not only the existence of commercial developers but also the existence of ANYTHING that offers aid or comfort to these "enemies." (Yes, that means the BSDs, since they offer an alternative to developers who want to use freely available code rather than reimplementing -- needlessly -- from scratch.) This makes the presence of the GPL -- the FSF's primary instrument of warfare against all that it does not control -- a clear and present danger to the BSDs. To end the licensing concerns once and for all, we must remove the GPL. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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