Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:59:09 -0500 From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> To: David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org> Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD/Linux 'distribution' Message-ID: <19990220165909.G11361@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> In-Reply-To: <19990220143410.B16910@debian.org>; from David Welton on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:34:10PM -0600 References: <19990220172712.N93492@lemis.com> <199902202004.NAA10980@usr04.primenet.com> <19990220143410.B16910@debian.org>
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On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 02:34:10PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > Basically, what I wanted to know was not particularly whether it was a > good or bad idea (I'm not particularly interested in it myself), but > what sort of reaction peole might have - if they would see us as > 'hijacking' their work. I'm a fan of the GPL in some senses, as I believe that in today's greed- ridden world, the guarantee that distributed improvements to code be them- selves distributed is good. The BSD license doesn't guarantee this - it allows for code to become proprietary. This is a desired goal amongst most folks who want to use the BSD license, and I can't imagine them having a problem with whatever is done with the code, short of changing the license or copyright. > The distribution would hypothetically be named Debian GNU/FreeBSD or > something like that, and we would obviously give back anything good we > happened to create. But, then, the license wouldn't require that you do that. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us )) build their nest with fragments dropped http://acheron.ne.mediaone.net (( from day's caravan." - Rabindranath Tagore To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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