Date: 20 Dec 2001 14:20:26 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <b1itb1wn2t.tb1@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <a05101006b84748e23040@[10.0.1.48]> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112190048271.29122-100000@ugrad.unbc.ca> <b2itb2y1nh.tb2@localhost.localdomain> <a05101006b84748e23040@[10.0.1.48]>
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Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> writes: > Simple. If you do a project based on code that uses the GPL, > you do not have the option of withholding your source code. If you do a > project based on code that uses the BSDL, then you *do* have the option > of withholding your source code. Sorry. I don't know what I was thinking, other than that the thought was heavy on my mind, at the time, that the GPL had another point than the one claimed. (I think I confused his point with a third one to which I've rightly (?) responded like that in other forums.) Good of you to read past my too-many parentheses and recognize that the GPL both restricts AND encourages licensees to "do something proprietary". (It restricts one from keeping your work in a derivative from other GPL users, but it encourages/forces one to keep your work from non-GPL users.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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