Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:20:18 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" Message-ID: <353D0D92.41C67EA6@asme.org> References: <199804211842.NAA07928@dyson.iquest.net>
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Well, that was IMHO...notice that GPL is not considered opensource. The motivation behind opensource is better explained by Eric Raymond in his homepage. ( I don't care much about opensource...I think they are rediscovering FreeBSD's advantages ;-) Pedro. John S. Dyson wrote: > > > MIT's X11 has one of these licences; note that there is no GPL'd X11 ! > > > > OTOH, GPL is so restrictive that commercial providers (like netscape) > > can't contribute to it. Eric Raymond and Linus are indeed promoting more > > BSD-like licenses. > > Take a look at > > http://www.opensource.org/ > > > Wow!!! If that is true, that is great!!! > > John > > 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
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