Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:55:55 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on COPYING file ... Message-ID: <14323.56427.831050.837170@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909301430390.20294-100000@hub.freebsd.org> References: <14323.34782.261532.675979@hip186.ch.intel.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909301430390.20294-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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[ On Thursday, September 30, Kris Kennaway wrote: ] > > It is under the GPL, right? :) indeed. > Your friend needs to actually read the license he's infected his software > with: let's not go there ... :) ... we have bitter fights about GPL vs. BSD and Linux vs. FreeBSD all the time ... I'm Hatfield, he's McCoy ... > [snip] > > All we have to do is provide for access to the source code together with > the appropriate license/copyright information. Since we provide access to > the unmodified code which includes the latter, it's perfectly fine. That's what I'd figured. I wanted to get some feedback from others. I've since convinced him that nobody from the communist FreeBSD world (sarcasm) is going to "steal" his precious code just because it isn't sitting next to the GPL in the same directory on somebody's disk. Thanks for the sanity check! -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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