Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:01:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Licia <licia@o-o.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Message-ID: <3067.918500466@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:37:01 MST." <4.1.19990208113442.00c08cd0@mail.lariat.org>
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> I see your point about the language. Still I strongly believe that, > if we do not place a "poison pill" against the GPL in our licenses, > we will see the GPL subsume all else. If you were to add something > that would prevent open source code from being relicensed under > the GPL, how would you phrase it? I wouldn't add a thing. Poison pills have a way of poisoning the owners and I don't see them as an effective or desirable form of defense at all. For each degree of increased freedom always comes a corresonding degree of increased risk and that's just life. I think the freedom/risk ratio is already well balanced in the 2-clause BSD license and I wouldn't be inclined to do anything which alters that balance. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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