From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 21 08:57:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00906 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00814 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:57:03 GMT (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.50]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA3141; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:59:35 +0500 Message-ID: <353CC182.794BDF32@asme.org> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:55:46 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund CC: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" References: <199804211519.JAA07257@lariat.lariat.org> <19980421172759.60471@follo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org MIT's X11 has one of these licences; note that there is no GPL'd X11 ! OTOH, GPL is so restrictive that commercial providers (like netscape) can't contribute to it. Eric Raymond and Linus are indeed promoting more BSD-like licenses. Take a look at http://www.opensource.org/ cheers, Pedro. Eivind Eklund wrote: > ... > > > For provisions that should be included in the license? > > Just include a statement that 'derivate works may not be placed under > a license which deny binary distribution without source availability, > or place restrictions on binary distribution that make this > impractical.' or somesuch - that should be enough, I think. > > Eivind. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message