Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:10:28 -0700 From: David O'Brien <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Dirk Myers <dirkm@teleport.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010709011028.A2736@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010705184811.A78227@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:48:11PM %2B0100 References: <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010630173455.T344@teleport.com> <20010701032900.A93049@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010701132353.W344@teleport.com> <20010702152649.A18127@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B449C54.EC88E204@softweyr.com> <20010705184811.A78227@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:48:11PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > I thing my word choice obscured my intent: > > The FSF holds the copyright to insure that the PROJECT will remain forever > GPL'ed. NO. The FSF holds the copyright to insure it is *defendable*. If GCC, et. al. was not fully owned by them it would be quite hard to sue someone over abuse of copyright or license. Same reason UC-Berkeley/CSFG did the same for BSD. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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