Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:55:05 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL, not freebsd should be rewritten based on microkernel architecture Message-ID: <75f68749-10d9-9bf2-f046-a56417576d23@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20200420011735.6448818053ED@ary.qy> References: <20200420011735.6448818053ED@ary.qy>
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On 4/19/20 8:17 PM, John Levine wrote: > In article <CAGBxaX=4=yx-xSo0gdsVgAoA7fUn8oRq3173covquHNw61kBJQ@mail.gmail.com> you write: >> Thus I suspect if push came to shove in a legal fight about the legality of >> GPL forcing third parties that just happen to use a GPL'ed project to give >> up all claims over how their work is used would likely unconstitutional. > > I'd suggest not playing junior lawyer. The GPL is a contract and > there have been successful cases to enforce it. Nobody has any > inherent right to use GPL'ed software (or any other software not > released into the public domain) so if you don't like the terms, don't > use it. > > I am not crazy about the GPL and one of the things I like about > FreeBSD is that most of it has much more reasonable licenses. John, and others. Stop arguing with troll, it never is productive. Valeri > > R's, > John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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