Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:35:07 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011221153354.00da44b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011221150930.A78601@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011221131016.00d3dcc0@localhost> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/Pine.LNX.4.43.0112181134500.21473-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/20011218110645.A2061@tisys.org> <200112182010.fBIKA9739621@prism.flugsvamp.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218180720.00d6e520@localhost> <20011219091631.Q377@prism.flugsvamp.com> <0en10ey5jo.10e@localhost.localdomain> <20011219215548.D76354@prism.flugsvamp.com> <lpellpwlhe.llp@localhost.localdomain> <20011220171739.J26326@prism.flugsvamp.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011221131016.00d3dcc0@localhost>
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At 02:09 PM 12/21/2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >No, Brett, that's not what I said. I said that the *ORIGINAL* work >by *itself* is not and cannot be tainted by the GPL. Of course that's so. But this is not the interesting case. >Yes, I agree with >you here that the Linux syslogd (a derivative of Allman's original >work) is tainted (by some definition of taint) by the GPL. But the >original pre-GPL work, which probably still is available in an archive >somewhere, is not GPL'd. All the BSDs use derivatives of it. (It really needs a rewrite, since it has some serious shortcomings, but that's another issue.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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