From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 26 11:33:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A6637B405 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:33:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1cust163.tnt1.ogden.ut.da.uu.net ([63.39.40.163] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JJnp-00071k-00; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:33:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C2A2606.A2552442@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:33:26 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop References: <200112182010.fBIKA9739621@prism.flugsvamp.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218180720.00d6e520@localhost> <20011219091631.Q377@prism.flugsvamp.com> <0en10ey5jo.10e@localhost.localdomain> <20011219215548.D76354@prism.flugsvamp.com> <20011220171739.J26326@prism.flugsvamp.com> <20011220231021.A52651@prism.flugsvamp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jonathan Lemon wrote: > Either the someone can slap a GPL on the BSD code, in which this thread > has relevancy, or they cannot, in which case the whole thing is moot. Actually, he shot himself in the foot both ways. While it's true there would be no risk to FreeBSD in the second case (I believe that "compatible" exists only in the mind of RMS), it _does_ mean that there's no way to construct a legal combination for a distribution, which was one of the primary issues in the JFS debate that spawned this thread. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message