From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Feb 23 9:28:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48B337B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14WMAv-0000q1-00; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:38:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3A96A01D.492D82FD@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:38:37 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Johnson Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL References: <004601c09cab$7750d260$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3A955578.CB84F89C@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Johnson wrote: > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > What if someone came along and created a closed source derivative of my > > > code and made a million bucks off of it? I would be pissed. But it > > > > Why? They undoubtedly would be first in line wanting to hire you - who > > better to work on the source for them than the one who wrote it! :-) > > Well then! That would evaporate my pissiness in short order! > > The point I was trying to make is that 99% of life is people doing what > you don't want them to do. At some point you have to stop trying to mold > the world into your own image and start learning to live with it. Right. The claims of the GPL hordes about "stealing" BSD-licensed code is just ludicrous, you cannot steal something that is freely given away. If you don't want to freely give away your code, don't use the BSD license. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message