Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:26:43 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dos2unix Message-ID: <372E3EC2.82F91F71@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905040151190.5411-100000@ws3.double-barrel.be>
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Actually, I don't care if that big company in Redmont takes the code and offers me a
product I really like...furthermore, while I understand why many people hate certain
monopolic companies, I don't see what free code has to do with it: people have to live
on something, and becoming rich out of writting software is fine with me.
however, I'm pretty sure that such big cmopanies won't need my help to write such a
trivial tool, and that no one with brain would pay for it...
Of course I am also speaking for myself here.
Pedro.
"Michael C. Vergallen" escribió:
> True, but eh now just speaking for myself here ...
> To me Trivial code sush as that and even filesystem code and all general
> purpouse stuff who's use is somewhat limited and is below 1000 lines of
> code should come with all the Free Licences so one can pick whatever one
> suites better the users needs on more complex works sush as perl one can
> choose allready between a couple of licences so why not do it for more
> programs ... I just don't want a certain big company in redmont to use
> certain code but for the rest I don't care what happens to code and who
> uses it as long as the autors name and details remain intact and also the
> names of poeple who fixed the code their details are mentioned. Sometimes
> I take a package make the chages I need for me to that code and put the
> code back in the original sites /incoming directory with a small note what
> changes I made to their code and why...then the authors are free to do
> with my changes what they want if they want to keep my version okey if
> they don't like my changes they can delete it..me don't care what happens
> to it as long as I offered my code back to them because afterall they
> wrote the original code I was able to modify. But that's me.
>
> Michael
> ---
> Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike,
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>
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> > > people: we're talking about a trivial piece of code. I wrote the
> > > dos2unix and unix2dos utilities in C and would gladly give the code
> > > away with whatever licence suites the FreeBSD project better...
> > > i don't even need to be acknowledged for writing the code.
> >
> > It's sad how many people GPL their code simply because they don't know any
> > better.
> >
> > DS
> >
> >
>
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