From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 20 5:47:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549C037B405 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 05:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA11890; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:47:18 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011220064324.0264db70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:46:38 -0700 To: Jonathan Lemon , "Gary W. Swearingen" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Cc: Jonathan Lemon , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011219215548.D76354@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <0en10ey5jo.10e@localhost.localdomain> <200112182010.fBIKA9739621@prism.flugsvamp.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218180720.00d6e520@localhost> <20011219091631.Q377@prism.flugsvamp.com> <0en10ey5jo.10e@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:55 PM 12/19/2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >This is where we appear to differ. I reject the notion that because >it is possible in some universe to combine BSD + GPL'd code, that it >automatically forces all other copies of the BSD code to fall under >the GPL. It does not. But that's not what's going on here! In this case, the FreeBSD distribution -- as you download it, get it from CVS, or get it on the disk -- is forced to be covered by the GPL. This is bad enough, but worse still, the license is "sticky;" from that point on, the code is covered by the GPL. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message