From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 20 5:59:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2945B37B417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 05:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA12005; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:59:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011220065451.02653af0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:58:49 -0700 To: Jeremy Karlson , "Gary W. Swearingen" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:00 AM 12/20/2001, Jeremy Karlson wrote: >Okay, "proprietary" is perhaps not a good word, but I still can't think of >a better one. Try "commercial." GPLed software cannot be commercial, because it cannot be the object of commerce. Yes, you can sell a disc with the software ON it for money, but you cannot license the software ITSELF for money. >What I was getting at is that even if Stallman were to >change the license on his "free software," users would always have the >ability to grab an older version and fork development at that point. Yes, but then they would have to maintain a parallel version which there is no economic incentive to develop (because the current GPL already precludes any reward for doing so). >PS - I've seen that "Open Sources" book around a few times, and I thought >it might be an interesting read, but I've always thought it's probably >pretty Linux and GPL preachy. Is it actually worth my time to read? McKusick's essay in that book is worth a read. Stallman and Perens' contributions are pure propaganda. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message