From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 12 2:30:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from theinternet.com.au (c20631.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au [203.164.207.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3BA37B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from akm@localhost) by theinternet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fBCAUHp76347 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:30:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:30:17 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton To: current@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <20011211093550.D4BF638CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011211102645.46795.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> <20011211183001.B67986@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C15CD07.6D5FC2E7@mindspring.com> <20011212131125.A82733@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C16D226.F169C43D@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3C16D226.F169C43D@mindspring.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:42:30PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +-------[ Terry Lambert ]---------------------- | | RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite | distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to | work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions, | I can't see him *not*. Factor that into your decision. Just to balance this point out; Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be a consideration? Not everyone has the religious conviction of RMS. In 1983 RMS promised a kernel for GNU too, it hasn't arrived yet. He talks a lot. Remeber to factor that into your decisions d8) -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message