From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 12 2:32:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E32E37B419 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBCAUTj52755; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:30:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:30:17 +1000." <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:30:29 +0100 Message-ID: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milt on writes: >+-------[ 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? Uh, people have been signing their copyright over to FSF for a long time... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message