Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:09:03 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: proff@suburbia.net (Julian Assange) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rsync Message-ID: <199607011309.GAA25803@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199607011257.WAA05320@suburbia.net> from "Julian Assange" at Jul 1, 96 10:57:37 pm
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In some mail from Julian Assange, sie said: > > > THe only un-cool thing is the GPL virus. > > I whole-heartedly support the GPL philosophy. Even though it has gone > out of vouge. New information is built on and from existing information. > The speed that information evolves in complexity and function is > directly related how available it is. Retardation of information flows > decreases the efficiency and efficacity of human knowledge. > > GPL does not forbid commercial use, providing source is made available. The GPL is crap. If you make any changes to that code, it is automatically GPL'd. It isn't the "commercial use" which I hate, but the restrictions the license puts on the code itself, those who want to use that code, etc. For example, Linux people can take *BSD software, port it to Linux, fix bugs, make enhancements and in the process, it is GPL'd, making it unsuitable for re-inclusion to the original BSD source, effectively penalising the *BSD groups because their license is too generous. I don't see how that helps information flows.
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