Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:31:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Producing non-GPLed tools for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199810202131.OAA01284@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:15:15 CDT." <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810201605110.13084-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The hypocrisy comes from misleadingly calling this "free". > > I don't think it's misleading at all. The software costs nothing, and the > source is available to anyone who wants it. Sounds pretty free to me. If it were free, I could do anything I liked with it. As it has restrictions attached to it, it's not free. > > If it were truly free, Brett could do what he liked with it. In point > > of fact, GPL'ed code is no more "free" than proprietary code. > > How so? Proprietary code costs money. GPL code is by its nature free > for anyone to read or incorporate into their own work. If they don't > like the caveats that come with the freedom to incorporate, tough nuts. You've answered your own question. > Then they do what Brett is doing, and start from scratch. In the end, > though, authors still have a right to determine how their work is used > and/or distributed; if they're philosophically opposed to the concept of > closed-source proprietary software, they use the GPL. I'm not a > particularly big fan of the GPL myself, but I completely understand the > motives of those who are. Yes, so do I. I don't respect them much however. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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