Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:33:02 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: bright@wintelcom.net, davids@webmaster.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, walton@nordicrecords.com Subject: Re: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Message-ID: <19990908113302.24553@ns.int.ftf.net> In-Reply-To: <199909080052.RAA16284@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:52:55AM %2B0000 References: <19990903111035.34383@ns.int.ftf.net> <199909080052.RAA16284@usr06.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > In point of fact, the danger lies in two areas: > > 1) Dilution of intellectual property rights, specifically > implicit grants of license to use process patents when > the patented process is embodied in software. Right -- also called a "brain drain" or "money drain" :-) > 2) Commercial companies expect to benefit from expenditures, > to the point of recovering them, plus some profit margin. [...] Fair enough, and a good explanation. > > There was a very good interview (in one Login of L. Peter Deutsch about > > his writing Ghostscript, and why he regretted using the GPL). > > I would be interested in obtaining a pointer to this interview, if > you have it. I will look it up on the usenix site. > Can you provide one example of a monumental undertaking which would > not exist without the GPL? Not offhand, no -- I will try and find some though :-) Mind you, I was in no way trying to defend the GPL -- I was merely hoping someone would come out and make things clear (the way you just did). -- Division by Zero error -- multiplying by zero to recover. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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