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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:36:37 -0300
From:      "Pablo Baena" <PBaena@TercerMundo.com.ar>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <MDAEMON1670167199910290336.AA3636091@TercerMundo.com.ar>

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What's the deal with GPL? Any URL to see what's this all about with
GPL and FreeBSD. I do not use Linux right now, but I do use lots of
GNU software, and FreeBSD with it, so I'd like to know more about
that subject.
  
Thanks.
                                        Pablo
  
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:06:58PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:21 PM 10/28/1999 -0700, Todd Meister wrote:                              
> >On 28-Oct-99 Brett Glass wrote:                                               
> > > I've considered using AbiWord, but it's GPLed. (Not trying to start a flame
> > > war here; just pointing it out.)                                           
> >                                                                              
> >That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  "That" being the implication   
 that                                                                            
> >using GPLed software is a bad idea.                                           
>                                                                                
> It is a VERY bad idea, since the more it is used, the more it accomplishes the 
> GPL's purpose. But again, this is a subject for a flame war I do not have time 
> for right now.                                                                 
>                                                                                
> --Brett                                                                        
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"It was a time the sky seemed so bright and blue. A time I believed              
it could carry a song straight into heaven"                                      
                                                Myung Fan Lone    



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