From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 17 18:04:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03847 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:04:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar (dialin1.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.252.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03842 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cmott@localhost) by darkstar (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA03230; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:03:50 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:03:49 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: GPL Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have seen a number of back handed comments towards the GNU public license. For individualistic (not particularly rational) reasons, I prefer not to attach the GPL to any piece of free software I write. What is the complaint that others have with GPL? That being said, I still have the highest respect for Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. FreeBSD could not exist were it not for gcc. I haven't checked, but I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't quite a bit of other GNU software on the FreeBSD cdrom. Charles Mott