From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 9 1:10:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 8D6DF37B40C; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:10:28 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: j mckitrick Cc: Wes Peters , Dirk Myers , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010709011028.A2736@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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