From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 6 05:21:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19847 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 05:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA19814 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 05:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03734; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:20:31 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA05544; Wed, 6 May 1998 14:20:30 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980506142029.36578@follo.net> Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 14:20:29 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Johann Visagie , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Better education re GPL needed References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Johann Visagie on Wed, May 06, 1998 at 12:15:46PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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