From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 18:50:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCA437B5DD for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 18:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from redprince@redprince.net) Received: from WhizKid (r0.bfm.org [216.127.220.96]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Sun, 14 May 2000 20:51:34 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000514205024.00898920@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:50:24 -0500 To: "David Schwartz" , "Anatoly Vorobey" , "Thomas M. Sommers" From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Cc: In-Reply-To: <001801bfbe09$ced4d120$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 18:06 14-05-2000 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > PS: If I had to contest the GPL in court, one argument I would definitely >make is that the copyright on the GPL prevents people from negotiating >terms. I would probably also argue that GPL is not valid because it deliberately uses the word "copyleft". It is clearly anti-copyright, hence should not enjoy protection by copyright law. By the way, there has been a heated discussion on the Unicode list recently: Someone is proposing to have the copyleft symbol official incorporated into Unicode. Whatever that symbol is (I have never seen it). Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message