Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:32:27 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> References: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > The > > > "party" has full control over it. The "party" can even change the license > > > in the future to whatever it wants, without the author having any say. > > > > This is not grounded in fact. If I release a piece of software under > > GPL, you are *not* free to change the license; in fact, this lack of > > freedom is what is so aggravating about GPL to BSD people in the first > > place! What are you smoking? > > I think he's referring to the "copying" file distributed with many > GPL software, saying that you may distribute it under the GPL version 2, > or "at your discretion, any later version". That is a choice of the > author, who apparently trusts the FSF not to make undesirable changes > to the GPL, but it is not necessary. It is not the choice of the author, but rather the choice of the user. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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