Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 14:20:29 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better education re GPL needed Message-ID: <19980506142029.36578@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <E0yX1Eo-0006lx-00@ns.cityip.co.za>; from Johann Visagie on Wed, May 06, 1998 at 12:15:46PM %2B0200 References: <E0yX1Eo-0006lx-00@ns.cityip.co.za>
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On Wed, May 06, 1998 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Johann Visagie wrote: > > Just a sudden thought: Why do so many developers who are FreeBSD-friendly > release code under the GPL? I realised that I had been noticing this lately > while I was looking at the technical info pages of the by now well-known > ftpsearch engine in Norway - they run their service on FreeBSD CURRENT, > which means that they _probably_ also develop on FreeBSD, and yet their > code is GPL. > > Might it not be a good idea to think up ways to educate developers in the > free software community about the possible pitfalls of the GPL? I'd guess Tor knows the difference between GPL and BSDL fairly well - he's one of the FreeBSD developers. Unfortunately, GPL has a very, very large footing in Norway, up to and including a lot of the student-computer-clubs requiring (in the bylaws) the GPL on all code developed on their machines... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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