Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 12:59:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: gena@NetVision.net.il, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: GPL code in freebsd? Message-ID: <199506171959.MAA07310@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506171151.HAA12011@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jun 17, 95 07:51:28 am
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> > Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > > > > > > > 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! > > I agree with this SO MUCH I'll SHOUT. > > We work with small and medium size companies. We embed chunks of > BSD kernel in their products, some of which have no OS at all. > This means presenting the licencing terms to the management, and > the management presenting them to the legal department or outside > lawyer during the project negotiation phase. > > We take intellectual property rights seriously, and usually have > to negotiate changes in the company boiler plate legal agreements. > We have enough trouble with that. I assure you that trying to get > the GPL understood by those people, and then approved, would be a > problem for us. > > Before engaging in any discussions of GPL versus BSD everyone should > sit down and read the GPL, and when in the discussion try to see > the environment that the other individual is coming from. I would go a few steps farther in this if you are in the software end of things and plan on using GPL'ed code for your work of in your work. I suggest you print out a copy of the version 2 GPL, take it to a lawyer, pay him the $100.00 to explain just what it means to you. Then quickly run home and destroy all the GPL code you are using in your business :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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