From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 18:43:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3322837B41E for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:43:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3F3D2786E3; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:13:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:13:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <20011218131351.M21649@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 18 December 2001 at 3:30:46 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 12:10 PM +1030 on 2001/12/18, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> If you link some GPL-covered code into the kernel, the GPL's >>> conditions will apply to the kernel as a whole. >> >> But only to that kernel, which is a binary. The only effect the GPL >> has on a binary is to require the supplier to also supply the source >> code on request. I can't imagine that we'd have problems with that. > > We might not, but the BSD license allows people to take the code > and turn it into a proprietary, closed-source project. That would no > longer be possible for anyone who wanted to use a GPL-infested BSD. Read what it says: > The kernel code released under the revised BSD license will continue > to be under the revised BSD license; it is only the *combination as > a whole* that will be covered by the GPL--if and when the > GPL-covered code is included in it. If someone links a kernel > without that GPL-covered code, the GPL won't apply to that kernel. What part of that don't you understand? > For example, this would almost certainly have killed the > Whistle InterJet, as well as many other commercial projects using > BSD. Yes, projects like this can contribute source code back, and > frequently do -- but it's their choice as to what they contribute > and what they keep private. You need to explain this. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message