From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 15:53:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co [168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7D014D35 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 15:53:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem01.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.31]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11670 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:34:16 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <3744630D.FA08C679@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:31:26 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL alternatives References: <000c01bea2f0$f2e335a0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FWIW, if you can't convince them to change the license to something free, at least try to have them use the LGPL. It sounds similar, which is VERY important for some people ;-). Pedro. David Schwartz wrote: > > license which allows to "make other distribution arrangements > > with the Copyright > > Holder." > > I don't think any license could prevent that. It's hard to see how the > author would become subject to the license in the first place. He doesn't > need the license to grant him any rights to his own software since he > already has them. > > DS > > 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