From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 12:22:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail010.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail010.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972DD37B416 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:22:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from optusnet.com.au (golax8-189.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.182.189]) by mail010.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fBJKMZg01599 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:22:35 +1100 Message-ID: <3C20F74A.4BD50BFD@optusnet.com.au> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:23:38 +1000 From: Ian Pulsford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> <0gn10gyxwd.10g@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > Unfortunately, he also decided to punish developers who WILL allow > repair and enhancement (eg, FreeBSD) but won't join in the punishment of > others; that is way the GPL has no virus-escape clause for other open > software, which it easily could do. I don't understand why more people > don't find this bullying of other open ("free") software developers > distasteful. The newer FreeBSD license, along with others, is considered to be "compatible". I've always wondered if by "compatible", Stallman means "can be assimilated into GPL code". IanP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message