From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 21 14:22:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27421 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27276 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:21:53 GMT (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.49]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA3675; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:23:59 +0500 Message-ID: <353D0D92.41C67EA6@asme.org> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:20:18 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John S. Dyson" CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The "Anti-GPL" References: <199804211842.NAA07928@dyson.iquest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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