From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 10 18:31:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03025 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:31:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03020 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA15783 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 03:31:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10Ajue-000WyhC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:23:24 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Date: 11 Feb 1999 01:23:21 +0100 Message-ID: <79t7tp$1n8$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199902101140.DAA63055@rah.star-gate.com> <4.1.19990210141609.040cf220@mail.lariat.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > This is a myth which seems to have been most recently propagated by > the supposed "Hallowe'en Memo" -- the notion that the GPL somehow prevents > development projects from "forking." (Since the authenticity of the > whole memo has never been proven, it's possible that ESR or someone else > inserted it as a way of intentionally creating FUD about BSD.) You're being overly paranoid. As a Linux advocate, ESR doesn't need to create FUD about BSD. It's not on his map at all. It's a non-issue. I think it was Jordan who mentioned pretty early on that the Halloween document is what you get when you browse Linux advocacy on the net. Yes, a lot of the Halloween paper reads like ESR--that's because the author swalled ESR's papers head and tail and occasionally didn't understand everything. > If the GPL prevents projects from forking, how come there are Debian, > SlackWare, Red Hat, Caldera, and SuSE versions of Linux? The Linux distributions aren't forks. They are different collections. There is no common ancestor. (Strictly speaking, you can probably derive family relationships for some of them.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message