Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:43:50 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <19980722144350.F15764@notabene.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <19980722165304.57689@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:53:04PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980721182647.24542A-100000@shell> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722005832.2295A-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <19980722000542.56979@futuresouth.com> <19980721223151.B15764@notabene.zer0.org> <19980722165304.57689@follo.net>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 04:53:04PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:31:51PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > I know this will just stir up trouble in the thread, but... > > if X11 was free software instead of just open source, TOG couldn't have > > changed the license to a semicommercial one. > > This is wrong. If it had been locked-down software (e.g, GPL) as > opposed to free software, they couldn't have added more licensing > terms. With any fully free license (the type the FreeBSD project > encourage :-) this could be done. Anybody could take most of the > FreeBSD sources and do the same thing - however, we'd be likely to > out-develop them, so it isn't of real interest. Sorry, I made an unstated assumption. Locked-down free software is what I should have said. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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