From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 17 01:28:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA12524 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 01:28:58 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA12518 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 01:28:53 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA06765; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 01:28:34 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506170828.BAA06765@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: GPL code in freebsd? To: gena@NetVision.net.il (Gennady B. Sorokopud) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 01:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.Org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Gennady B. Sorokopud" at Jun 17, 95 09:20:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 586 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.Org Precedence: bulk > > Sorry for the stupid question: > Linux uses GPL without any problems (or it seems so :-) > why we can't? Have you ever read the GPL? Do you understand what it says? Do you like 5 page licenses with all sorts of legaleize in them that even drives a lawyer nuts? Sorry, just can't stand bloody restictions like that, even my lawyer shreeks when he reads it! UCB copyright, nice, sort, understandable, and only 4 conditions! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD