From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 30 14:56:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9FF156FA; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id VAA18724; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:55:34 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id OAA23424; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:55:52 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id RAA23691; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:55:57 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14323.56427.831050.837170@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:55:55 -0700 (MST) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question on COPYING file ... In-Reply-To: References: <14323.34782.261532.675979@hip186.ch.intel.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ 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