From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 2 9: 9:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1FB14D75 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA01464; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:08:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990302100423.00b4bef0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:07:03 -0700 To: Pat Lynch From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Good InfoWorld Article Cc: Dennis Reiter , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990302093341.040f2100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:00 PM 3/2/99 -0500, Pat Lynch wrote: >Brett, personally, let them do that, they have every freedom and right in >the US to do what they want as far as licensing issues are concerned. The GPL has never been found by a court to be enforceable. Even if it were, however, it's still unethical to license one's code via the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to destroy markets and programmers' livelihoods, and to participate in that process is, IMHO, a very destructive thing to do. It is thus important that programmers be informed of what the GPL does and recommend AGAINST its use. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message