From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 23:21:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D528C11674 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA26197; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:20:33 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990218191626.00cc76a0@mail.lariat.org> Message-Id: <4.1.19990218191626.00cc76a0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:17:24 -0700 To: Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Fascinating GPL License 8) Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902122302.QAA23640@usr01.primenet.com> References: <4.1.19990212154305.04be99d0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:02 PM 2/12/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >If anything, the lack of a requirement to assign license to "The >FreeBSD Project, Inc." or some other single entity, and the >number of unassigned incorporated programs is what makes the >list so large, were you to trigger the advertising clause. True. But on the other hand, the FSF asks that all copyrights be assigned to it, and look what happens: the software becomes part of the GNU Blob. --Brett "When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. But lawyers have other strategies, including buying a stronger whip, changing riders ... declaring that the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead, and, finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed." Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, quoted in The Wall Street Journal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message