From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 2 17:48:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F234314DD5 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18459; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:18:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018415; Tue Mar 2 19:18:52 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA29832; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:48:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903030148.SAA29832@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Good InfoWorld Article To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mcneills@inw.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302093341.040f2100@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Mar 2, 99 09:35:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The only bad thing about Petreley's article is that he claims to be > of what he calls the "Who Cares movement," meaning that he doesn't > care (or claims not to care) about licensing issues. This is very > bad judgment, because he is ignoring the destructive effects of > the GPL. This is the distinction between "use" and "utilize", again. If you are merely going to utilize the code, instead of using to prepare derivative works, then you honestly don't care about the license. For example, FreeBSD utilizes GNU programming tools to build FreeBSD, and could really care less that they are GNU (with the exception that binutils orphaned a.out). If FreeBSD cared, there would be a strong push for different tools (e.g. TenDRA). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message