Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:21:16 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705171812.04523b00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15172.52545.788676.736485@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705135915.00bb8a80@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125524.04502690@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107031644410.16320-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> <20010703134058.A9446@mooseriver.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705135915.00bb8a80@localhost>
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At 02:25 PM 7/5/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >Any author >who releases something under the GPL does so of their own free will... Not true. From the GPL: >b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third > parties under the terms of this License. As you can see, the GPL coerces authors who use even a single line of GPLed code to release their own work under the GPL. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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