From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Feb 22 2:51:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from dehumanizer.meganet.pt (hyperion.meganet.pt [194.38.131.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483E037B401 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 02:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deh@dehumanizer.meganet.pt) Received: by dehumanizer.meganet.pt (Postfix, from userid 501) id D04A41F3E5; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:51:09 +0000 (WET) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:51:09 +0000 From: Pedro Timoteo To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <20010222105109.A30756@meganet.pt> References: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> <3A941B86.29F35473@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A941B86.29F35473@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:48:22AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:48:22AM -0800, David Johnson wrote: > it has more restrictions is ludicrous. That's like arguing you can't > have free elections in a democracy because otherwise a monarch might run > for office and win. Or it could be said that it's like saying that no matter who wins the free elections, you can't change it from a democracy to a monarchy... I'm not saying that this is my opinion, but the GPL *can* be interpreted like this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message