From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 9 16:11:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03685 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:11:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA03678 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 13258 invoked from network); 10 Feb 1999 00:11:04 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 10 Feb 1999 00:11:04 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA61330; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:10:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902100010.TAA61330@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) In-Reply-To: <199902092106.OAA01631@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 9, 99 09:05:59 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:10:59 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, lcremean@tidalwave.net, brett@lariat.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, licia@o-o.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert said: > > The standard BSD license is already poison pilled. In fact, it is quite fair > > by requiring attribution. Just be sure to provide an extra 20-30K of CDROM > > space for attribution. :-). > > Wrong. > > http://sleepycat.com/license.net > > Only the GPL prevents BSD licensed code from being virulized; other > licenses are not so kind as to exclude themselves from contaminating > BSD licensed code. > Well, I tend to think in terms of GPL, simply because it is predominant. In the general case of poison pill-ing, you probably have to tune it on a per license basis. Maybe I was wrong in thinking that the context was GPL? -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message