From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 23 15:21:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA15754 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 15:21:19 -0700 Received: from eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.42.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA15741 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 15:21:11 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.142.36]) by eikon.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de with SMTP id <55347>; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:19:35 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA07497; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 15:42:50 +0200 Message-Id: <199507221342.PAA07497@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" cc: tony@thing.sunquest.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support charges ( was Re: SUP target for -STABLE...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 1995 02:37:47 +0200." <9507220037.AA19299@plokta.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 15:42:49 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey " Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ref. > Cygnus is different in one moderately important regard: they have the > GPL to wave at people who don't want the work Cygnus does on software > like gdb distributed to the world. I suggest you reread the GPL, I recall no mandate to force publish work. Maybe we need a new list to handle all the periodic legal/moral/copyright/commercial-ethics/bs threads that we all (self included) seem to respond to when not busy, but that swamp us other times. Think how nice it would be to be able to echo "unsubscribe philosopy `echo $EMAIL`" | mail majordomo@freebsd.org when we're too busy for all that stuff :-) Julian S jhs@freebsd.org