From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 9 16:22: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D8A1518B for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA09909; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:53:41 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:53:40 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Brett Glass Cc: Sean Michael Whipkey , eng@cstone.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Quotation Message-ID: <19991109235340.A9665@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <38285F15.A656E35B@cstone.net> <4.2.0.58.19991109105207.04298ae0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991109105207.04298ae0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:54:17AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 10:54:17AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > What's of greater concern is that the article incorrectly denies a key > distinction between FreeBSD and Linux. It says that those who enhance > FreeBSD are "required" to make them available to everyone. This is > not true, of course, and Frankenberg's statement serves to blur > the important differences between the BSD license and the GPL. I did try to cover this in the extended commentary I wrote in the intro to the Slashdot article. It sounds like a lot of people didn't bother to read it. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis show stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message