Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:30:10 +0900 From: Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Shigio Yamaguchi <shigio@tamacom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU GLOBAL Message-ID: <199909191730.CAA01063@tamacom.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> of "Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:45:06 CST." <37E44022.9126EB3F@softweyr.com>
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> There are some types of software for which the GPL is the best license. > In my opinion, programming tools of many sorts -- compilers, linkers, > editors, assemblers -- fit into this category. Contrary to what some Tag system doesn't fit into this category? > believe, we BSD'ers are not rabid GPL haters, we just don't like to see > it attached to important pieces of software that developers might want > to turn into a product, because that limits the audience. I agree with you. But it depends on the part. GPL may be a menace for kernel and library code, because once including GPLed code then the whole of it must be distributed under GPL. But GPLed command brings no problem, because the rest of the system just "utilize" it, not "use it. GPL is not applied to "utilize". So the rest of the system is safe from GPL. -- Shigio Yamaguchi - Tama Communications Corporation Mail: shigio@tamacom.com, WWW: http://www.tamacom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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