From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 18 18:45:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECBB14CAE for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11SW2N-0001f6-00; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:45:08 -0600 Message-ID: <37E44022.9126EB3F@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:45:06 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shigio Yamaguchi Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL References: <199909181348.WAA02472@tamacom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shigio Yamaguchi wrote: > > I'm the author of GLOBAL source code tag system. > > I have decided to release next version of GLOBAL as a GNU software. > It means that it will be released under GPL instead of BSD license. > > This decision was made by practical reason, not by doctrine reason. There are some types of software for which the GPL is the best license. In my opinion, programming tools of many sorts -- compilers, linkers, editors, assemblers -- fit into this category. Contrary to what some believe, we BSD'ers are not rabid GPL haters, we just don't like to see it attached to important pieces of software that developers might want to turn into a product, because that limits the audience. Thank you for telling us about your product. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message