Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:41:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Cc: davidw@master.debian.org, tlambert@primenet.com, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD/Linux 'distribution' Message-ID: <199902202341.QAA21335@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <36CF42BB.D21920A2@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Feb 20, 99 04:18:19 pm
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> But would it be infected with the GPL virus? I doubt anyone here in > BSD-land would be at all interested, if it were to be. [ ... ] > I doubt you'll hear an considerable shouting over it. Our license > allows you to do whatever you want with the code, including compile > it, run it, GPL it, smoke it, or get it tattooed onto your behind. > You just have to give credit where it's due. You *can't* "GPL it". The GPL specifically states "no other restrictions". The "claim credit caluse" (or "advertising clause", as it commonly referred to) is a restriction that results in a license conflict. Specifically, sentence 2 of section 6 of: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html reads: You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. And no, whoever else is reading this, I don't want to discuss the merits of this fact. Contact RMS yourself and ask him, it's his license; he'll be happy to tell you why there's a conflict, and pretty much anything else that you ever wanted to know but were afraid someone would tell you: mailto:rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (I'm pretty sure this address still works). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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