Date: 21 Jun 2001 02:38:41 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> Cc: bright@sneakerz.org, "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, "jeroen@unfix.org" <jeroen@unfix.org>, "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Message-ID: <xzphexay8dq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <SAK.2001.06.20.rnfbshns@support10> References: <SAK.2001.06.20.rnfbshns@support10>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> writes: > GPL is great for simple things, that don't create any standard, but > work upon one. But as even RMS [I think it was RMS] agreed, BSD > license is much better for 'standards'. -- ie the oog format was BSD > licensed and the GPL people endorsed it because this would allow oog > to grow, as now corps can [try to] make money off a format in their > proprietary devices, unlike if oog was GPLed, it would die as no one > would support it except for the linux folks. Beware. Richard Stallman also advocates changing to more restrictive licenses once the software (in general, not ogg in particular) has gather sufficient momentum. He wrote a diatribe a year or two back where he argued that the time had come to switch glibc (IIRC) from LPGL to GPL so that all the commercial software vendors who had become dependent on Linux would be forced to GPL their software or fold. Talk about bait-and-switch! It's for this reason, by the way, that the LGPL has been renamed from "Library GPL" to "Lesser GPL". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzphexay8dq.fsf>