From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 8: 0:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA3E37B417 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28452; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:00:10 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011219085146.00decca0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:59:56 -0700 To: Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Cc: Craig Harding , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3C20557A.C9AE1720@mindspring.com> References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218102351.02841f00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218124204.02812700@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218180158.00d6fc50@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:53 AM 12/19/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >I'd like to get a URL for this. Here you go: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/23/1723215.shtml http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/18/214202&mode=flat and http://www.vidomi.com/article.php?sid=1 Note that Vidomi, the company in question, was forced, by the FSF's arm twisting, to release substantial portions of its own work even though its program simply LINKED to DLLs built with GPLed code. In the end, it was forced not to link to DLLs but rather to create a separate program with which its own commercial program communicated via IPC. This program contained much of the company's own work. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message