Date: 06 Jul 2001 00:28:34 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Message-ID: <xzp3d8bui25.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <15172.52545.788676.736485@guru.mired.org> References: <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> <15172.52545.788676.736485@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > Not so. The GPL is inanimate, and can't attempt anyhing. Any author > who releases something under the GPL does so of their own free will, > and while they may give away the right to be rewarded for the work in > question, they do so knowingly. Actually, I think a lot of them have no idea what the GPL means (except that it means "free", for some definition of "free"), and use it only because they don't know any better, and everybody else is using it anyway so it must good. That still doesn't mean they're being forced into using the GPL against their will, though - ignorance is not a valid excuse. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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