Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:41:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3C174284.8F0B3B7B@mindspring.com> References: <E16Dkz5-0006Xd-00@tungsten.btinternet.com> <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> <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > +-------[ 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? I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM product. Not. 8^p -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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