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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:53:40 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>, eng@cstone.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Quotation
Message-ID:  <19991109235340.A9665@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991109105207.04298ae0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:54:17AM -0700
References:  <38285F15.A656E35B@cstone.net> <4.2.0.58.19991109105207.04298ae0@localhost>

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On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:54:17AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> What's of greater concern is that the article incorrectly denies a key
> distinction between FreeBSD and Linux. It says that those who enhance
> FreeBSD are "required" to make them available to everyone. This is
> not true, of course, and Frankenberg's statement serves to blur
> the important differences between the BSD license and the GPL.

I did try to cover this in the extended commentary I wrote in the intro
to the Slashdot article.

It sounds like a lot of people didn't bother to read it.

N
-- 
    If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis show stamping
    on a penguin's face forever.
        --- with apologies to George Orwell


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