From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 21:08:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04764 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.rochester.rr.com (mail2-0.twcny.rr.com [24.92.226.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04756 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:08:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leisner@rochester.rr.com) Received: from rochester.rr.com ([24.93.25.38]) by mail2.rochester.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:09:30 -0500 Received: from dw.home (leisner@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rochester.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03120; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:07:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199902090507.AAA03120@rochester.rr.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 Reply-to: leisner@rochester.rr.com To: Frank Warren cc: MrChevy , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which OS to install In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 22:17:13 PST." <36BD2FE9.5CA22441@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:07:54 -0500 From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank, Very unique interpretation of GPL... You have no requirements if you use or modify GPL software. Only if you redistribute binaries, you must redistribute source. The goal of GPL was to promote source code, not binary applications... Personally, I like linux and GPL...and freebsd... > If you use some Gnu-licensed software, you are REQUIRED, under penalty > of criminal and civil prosecution, to publish the source without cost > beyond distribution charges. It substitutes the KGB of Stalin and the > Death Camps of Hitler with the guns and powers of US Copyright law. > Anything you do with Gnu never again belongs to you. It is not a > statement of "live free or die!" it is, rather, a statement of "give to > us or the power of the state will kill/incarcerate or at least bankrupt > you with legal fees." > Marty Leisner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message