From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 16 9:58:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from loki.ideaglobal.com (loki.ideaglobal.com [194.36.20.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCB637B62B for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 09:58:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by loki.ideaglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01522; Tue, 16 May 2000 17:05:45 GMT (envelope-from kiril) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <200005161705.RAA01522@loki.ideaglobal.com> Subject: GPL or not (was: Backend in Minivend) In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000515122445.04077a10@localhost> from Brett Glass at "May 15, 2000 12:35:49 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:05:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > A better example, which shows the real danger, is as follows. > Suppose that you run your e-commerce server on Debian Linux. Under > Perens' proposed regime, you would be forced to give away (for > free!) the code you used in your business because it was serving > the public and running on a GPLed OS. > > Talk about a nasty land grab. > > --Brett Just out of plain idle dumb curiosity - what about all those non_linux OS'es that are compiled with GCC ? (Oh, and mv to -chat, plz) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message