From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 17:49:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28800 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28795 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA12882; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:19:29 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA09849; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:19:28 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981004101928.I8240@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:19:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Frank Pawlak Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <4.1.19981003110137.04172a80@mail.lariat.org> <12410.907413574@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981003110137.04172a80@mail.lariat.org> <19981004094225.D8240@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981003181807.042f0820@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981003181807.042f0820@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:19:10PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 3 October 1998 at 18:19:10 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:42 AM 10/4/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Well, you've seen the responses to my question, in particular Jamie >> Love's, which should count a lot more than any of us on the forum. >> Brett, please tone it down a bit. > > Greg: > > Have you seen Jamie's other remarks? Yes. > Unfortunately, he is enamored of the GPL, I don't see anything that suggests that. And certainly, compared to commercial licenses, he has a point. What would be unfortunate about that? > and says that I "hate" it merely because I have the temerity to > raise objections to it. I think that he, like I, is more concerned by the manner in which you do it. The GPL isn't our enemy, any more than Linux is. They do things slightly differently, but they're still basically free software. I don't think we'll get anywhere useful by discussing the relative merits of free software licenses. And yes, Jordan is right. The signal-to-noise ratio is approaching 0. This is probably my last message on the subject. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message