Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:29:23 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981020162923.17640@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810201605110.13084-100000@mercury.webnology.com>; from Jasper O'Malley on Oct 10, 1998 at 04:15:15PM -0500 References: <199810201921.MAA00548@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810201605110.13084-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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On Oct 10, 1998 at 04:15:15PM -0500, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The hypocrisy comes from misleadingly calling this "free". > > I don't think it's misleading at all. The software costs nothing, and the > source is available to anyone who wants it. Sounds pretty free to me. Hmm. Please note that this is the _same_ case as with any software that you obtain with an NDA: ``the software costs nothing'', and ``the source is available to anyone who wants it'', with the third line being ``as long as you agree to our terms''. So you could argue that the GPL is just another form of an NDA. I wouldn't say that software under an NDA is free, so the same for the GPL. -- Jonathan (It depends on how free your definition of `free' is. :-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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