Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:36:37 -0300 From: "Pablo Baena" <PBaena@TercerMundo.com.ar> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <MDAEMON1670167199910290336.AA3636091@TercerMundo.com.ar>
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What's the deal with GPL? Any URL to see what's this all about with
GPL and FreeBSD. I do not use Linux right now, but I do use lots of
GNU software, and FreeBSD with it, so I'd like to know more about
that subject.
Thanks.
Pablo
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:06:58PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:21 PM 10/28/1999 -0700, Todd Meister wrote:
> >On 28-Oct-99 Brett Glass wrote:
> > > I've considered using AbiWord, but it's GPLed. (Not trying to start a flame
> > > war here; just pointing it out.)
> >
> >That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. "That" being the implication
that
> >using GPLed software is a bad idea.
>
> It is a VERY bad idea, since the more it is used, the more it accomplishes the
> GPL's purpose. But again, this is a subject for a flame war I do not have time
> for right now.
>
> --Brett
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