Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 02:58:57 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: gsutter@pobox.com Cc: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New CODA release Message-ID: <19990208025857M.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:28:48 -0800" <19990207162848.L27505@orcrist.mediacity.com> References: <19990207162848.L27505@orcrist.mediacity.com>
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From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Subject: Re: New CODA release Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:28:48 -0800 > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:00:53PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > > > > Whiner. You don't like it, go write your own. > > > > Ohh.. so everyone that doesn't like GPL is a whiner nowadays...The nice > > No, the guy that was whining was a whiner. The coders of Coda made up > their minds to go with the GPL. The whining guy didn't try to > influence their decision, didn't present new reasons why Coda shouldn't > be GPLed, but was just bitching and moaning about it. That's fine, but > then if Sean wants to call him a whiner, he won't be far off. Pedro has made quite a few useful contributions to the ports collection, one of which became a toolchain used in the successful development of several large software projects here last year. He's not, by a far stretch, a do-nothing whiner. I always thought that the negative smiley :-( indicates a sense of sadness. I don't know of one indicating that one is whining. I'm sad about the CODA decision too and regret that we cannot consider using it here in a major project underway, per corporate legal counsel. As far as I recall, there wasn't much opportunity to lobby against the licensing changes, but you are correct, it *is* their code to license as they wish. Their reasons given for the change didn't convince me, but I doubt they care very much about that either. Also, there exists an exemption from GPL for grandfathered kernel code right? Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net > > > thing of a filesystem like CODA would be being able to use it with a LOT > > of platforms (yes, including commercial ones with expensive suport) > > without the license getting in your way. > > Yes, it would be nice. No, it won't happen in commercial systems > unless the Coda people can be convinced to either not use the GPL or > provide an alternative licensing scheme. That's life. > > Greg > -- > Gregory S. Sutter If I had finished this sentence > mailto:gsutter@pobox.com > http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ > PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 > > 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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