Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:02:56 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought Message-ID: <335A6860.83DC74A@konnections.com> References: <199704191759.NAA20704@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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I wasn't aware that WC only did Free software. I know that GNU only did GPL compliant stuff. But I think WC have always published whatever made them money and was Freely distributable. That's the real issue here, if the commercial folks would grant a license allowing you to copy my binaries freely from my CD. I don't think that will happen... -Mike Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > >>>> One of my favourite aspects of Walnut Creek is the assurance that I > >>>> could always get source to the programs. Is this no longer true? > >>> Huh? How did that question come out of this discussion? > >> Well, if WC puts commercial software on a CD, then you wouldn't be > >> getting the source with it. > >Again, I think this is common. We don't get ALL of the source with > >current distributions. Everything that conforms to GPL offers the > >source, but not everything on WC/Linux distros complies with GPL. > > This is correct, although I had been under the impression that WC only > published free (as in free to modify and distribute) software. > > >I think if you DON'T see `Free' (as in No Cost) packages in the distros > >(I'm speaking about Netscape and Mosaic) it's becuase the OWNERS want to > >control the distribution, not because the package compilers left them > >out due to GPL. > > Very possibly. > > >We don't need the source, we need the committment and interest from the > >commercial developers. They will be scared even thinking their source > >might get out... > > Agreed. I have no problem with this (or, more to the point, my > problem is with the software manufacturers, not with WC); I was just > suprised to see the idea of WC publishing non-free software so > nonchalantly. > > -- > http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu > All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. > > Second law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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