Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:30:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL issues (Was: More important Windows Refund Day coverage) Message-ID: <199902232230.OAA01372@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:34:16 EST." <19990222143416.A25682@netmonger.net>
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:37:17PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > >Both allow individual to own things and even to profit and make > > >private capital from them. > > > > Not so. The purpose of the GPL is to destroy businesses, markets, > > and livelihoods, while duping developers into believing that it > > somehow protects their interests. > > Come off it. > > As a strong FreeBSD supporter who prefers the GPL to the various other > free software licenses I've seen, I find this thread quite disturbing. > People seem to be simultaneously upset about something that they > percieve as taking away the freedom to use whatever license they want, > while complaining about people who choose to use a different license. No, the issue here is that there are people that don't understand that the GPL is a political weapon intended to seriously change the face of the software world. You can't use the GPL with accepting the fundamental nature of what it is. > > The purpose of the GPL is to allow people to license their code under > the GPL. Period. When I write software, I happen to want the > restrictions of the GPL. I do not want my code to ever become > non-free. That's my right - it's my code. And because of this, it will never become anything other than what you make it. Nobody can take your code away from you; you don't need the GPL to "protect" you from this. -- \\ 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-chat" in the body of the message
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