From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 4:27:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF3E37B50C for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 04:27:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p35-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.100]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id UAA18745; Mon, 15 May 2000 20:26:59 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <391FDF5C.5473F95B@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:28:28 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer Cc: Bob Bishop , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif goes open source References: <4.3.1.2.20000515080753.00abfd70@gid.co.uk> <20000515114002.A64473@cons.org> <391FDB25.D7FB808F@newsguy.com> <20000515132147.B24644@cons.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Cracauer wrote: > > "OpenSource" (without blank) is the term. "Open Source" is like > "Free BSD", suit-wearers language showing the unfamilarness with the > subject. Really? I have always used (and have no plans to change) "Open Source". I see no point at all in making it a single word. Alas, they use a definition of their own, to suit their needs instead of the political agenda of RMS. > > That's because GPL is brain-damaged. It is, essentially, incompatible > > with anything but GPL. Even the BSD license had to have a clause removed > > (and I'm still doubtful if this makes it "compatible" with GPL). > > I know. http://www.cons.org/cracauer/gpl.html > > It's an important thing to notice, as no GPL desktop stuff can be > built upon it. Hurray! :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@tutti.capi.bsdconspiracy.org "I agree whole heartily! Who am I to disagree with a wacko like you?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message