From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 15:42: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net (deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB83137B416 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:42:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.12] helo=harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net) by deathrow.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16GQg5-0000sy-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:17:29 -0800 Received: from [209.179.200.2] (helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16GQa8-0006V9-00; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:11:20 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1FA2CC.B0CDD474@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:10:52 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Nils Holland , Jeremy Karlson , Craig Harding , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217222907.028403b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218095233.028ea920@localhost> <20011218193510.A23697@tisys.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218124903.02874100@localhost> 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 Brett Glass wrote: > Dare we risk this? Remember, the FSF owns the code 100%. If Richard > and Brad say that it to be licensed in a particular way it does > not matter what anyone else would like. Their recent remarks suggest > that they are merely waiting for what they feel is an opportune > moment. They have stated, in a recent interview posted on Slashdot, > the FSF's official stance: that programmers should not be ALLOWED to > publish code under any license other than the GPL. 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. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message