From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 18 15:53:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10863 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA10849 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu by albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) with ESMTP id SAA03316; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:54:38 -0500 Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/4.0) id ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:52:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:52:29 -0500 Message-Id: <199702182352.SAA09940@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: softweyr@xmission.com CC: cmott@srv.net, chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199702180517.WAA17000@obie.softweyr.ml.org> (message from Wes Peters on Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:17:13 -0700 (MST)) Subject: Re: GPL From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu 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? >The major complaint is that it restricts the use of the software >extensively. You cannot, for instance, distribute binary-only copies of >GPL'ed software. Nor can you sell derivative works of GPL'ed >software. Point of order: You can sell derivative works of GPL'ed software, as well as GPL'ed software itself. Walnut Creek does so, NeXT did (does?). -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped