Date: 06 Jul 2001 18:52:37 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Message-ID: <xzpk81mt2y2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <15173.2796.630368.467005@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705135915.00bb8a80@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125524.04502690@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107031644410.16320-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> <20010703134058.A9446@mooseriver.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705171812.04523b00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705162529.04521930@localhost> <15172.52545.788676.736485@guru.mired.org> <xzp3d8bui25.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <15173.2796.630368.467005@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > If their understanding is no better than it was before the GPL was > introduced, that's certainly true. A large percentage of them simply > slapped "This code is in the public domain. Not for commercial use." - > or words to that effect - on their code. ...which is self-contradictory - if they place it in the public domain, they waive all rights to it, and thus lose the right to deny commercial use. > For such people the GPL is an improvement, as it comes much closer to > their intent than what they were doing before. Possibly, but I think most of them - though they may have read and understood the GPL - have never spent even five minutes trying to work out the implications of the GPL and the motives behind it. They just see that Linus uses it (though they may not realize that he uses a bastardized version, or understand why he needs to) and therefore conclude that It Must Be Good. They've probably never even heard of the BSD or MIT or Apache licenses. To summarize, I'm trying to say that although it may be a conscious decision, it's rarely an educated one. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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