Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:52:19 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Kiril Mitev <kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL or not (was: Backend in Minivend) Message-ID: <20000516105219.B7949@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200005161705.RAA01522@loki.ideaglobal.com>; from kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 05:05:45PM %2B0000 References: <4.3.1.2.20000515122445.04077a10@localhost> <200005161705.RAA01522@loki.ideaglobal.com>
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* Kiril Mitev <kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com> [000516 10:31] wrote: > > A better example, which shows the real danger, is as follows. > > Suppose that you run your e-commerce server on Debian Linux. Under > > Perens' proposed regime, you would be forced to give away (for > > free!) the code you used in your business because it was serving > > the public and running on a GPLed OS. > > > > Talk about a nasty land grab. > > > > --Brett > > Just out of plain idle dumb curiosity - what about all those > non_linux OS'es that are compiled with GCC ? The output of GCC is not GPL'd > (Oh, and mv to -chat, plz) And why couldn't you? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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