From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 1 06:27:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26821 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 06:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26810 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 06:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA05292; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 06:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607011325.GAA05292@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Julian Assange cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed), jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rsync In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 1996 22:57:37 +1000." <199607011257.WAA05320@suburbia.net> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@root.com Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 06:25:15 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. Uh-oh. I can see where this is going. Please, folks, freebsd-hackers is not an appropriate mailing list to be discussing the GPL philosophy. Let me try to nip this one in the bud, as it were, right away. If you wish to discuss this in a public forum, please take it to Usenet in some gnu newsgroup. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project