Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 10:29:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: BSD Not Compatible With GPL? Message-ID: <XFMail.990213102912.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990212205236.03ebb7c0@mail.lariat.org>
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On 13-Feb-99 Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:45 PM 2/12/99 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >>http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/02/12/0939216.shtml >> >>Funny, opensource.org says that BSD and GPL are both "opensource". Now >>FSF says that the advertising clause (recently pointed out in this >>forum) is not compatible with GPL. > > We can expect the FSF, and Stallman in particular, to become bolder as > Linux grows more popular. They will both appropriate code without > proper permission and seek to prevent others from using it. We > may even see the FSF begin to take out software patents and license > them ONLY to people who write code that's licensed under the GPL. I'll be the first to raise my voice against that, since that kind of practice would really be akin to any commercial company's bag o' dirty tricks. > Stallman claims that the purpose of the GPL is to make code "free," > unlike that of Microsoft. Any fool who becomes to passioned about a item dear to it is a madman ready to snap. We call it `baby-cherising' at work when a worker can't release a project he's been working on to a multitude of people. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven join #FreeBSD on Undernet asmodai(at)wxs.nl This is my Truth, tell me your's... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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