Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:59:00 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, Jeremy Karlson <karlj000@unbc.ca>, Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218181014.00d7d3d0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3C1FA2CC.B0CDD474@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217222907.028403b0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112180119550.29122-100000@ugrad.unbc.ca> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218095233.028ea920@localhost> <20011218193510.A23697@tisys.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218124903.02874100@localhost>
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At 01:10 PM 12/18/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >Too late, we already have the old code under the old license; we >can just fork their project on them, if it comes down to a license >change. And then BSD winds up actually MAINTAINING a GPLed product, which is not only contrary to the BSD philosophy but furthers Stallman's agenda. Not good. What's more, since the key maintainers are working on the other fork and are likely to be GPL zealots who will not BSD-license their code, BSD falls behind. Better to have a project that's part of BSD and is actively developed and maintained by people from the BSD projects. Perhaps Apple could help to fund this, since they have a specific need for a C/Objective C compiler. What they have now is forked from GCC, and I doubt that they're happy about harboring the wildebeest either. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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