From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 27 8:35:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B351B37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 16g72k-000LDl-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:35:02 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1RGZ1066601; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:35:01 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:35:01 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: Mike Meyer Cc: Benjamin Krueger , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First test of GPL in court Message-ID: <20020227163501.A66574@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20020227142005.A16555@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020227132417.B64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227052928.L12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227133748.C64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227054428.M12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227135103.E64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227061336.N12253@rain.macguire.net> <20020227142303.A65635@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227061336.N12253@rain.macguire.net> <15484.63760.663944.125557@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <15484.63760.663944.125557@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:19:44AM -0600 X-Scanner: exiscan *16g72k-000LDl-00*BPNI/akWEOc* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | what makes me think that so much stuff is GPL'ed not because people | are deceived by RMS, or agree with his goals, but because sharing | software is something that resonates in the hacker community. But they should realize the best form of sharing means no strings attached. Much of that 'shareware' was public domain. | I remember more than one bit of "shareware" where "sharing" was | donating to their favorite charity, or you could register by emailing | the author the fish disk # and name of a program you had donated. Those were the days. :-) Makes me feel ancient at 30 years old. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message