From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 20 01:17:44 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552BD2B178A for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49582G6yS1z4LjN for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:17:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 69795 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2020 01:17:36 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=110a1.5e9cf830.k2004; bh=CTuu4/FWDQ5e0VfzyPzirzqtHZnrdxITAGKsjTfCV8c=; b=kUeVqFmAIShmIciD8UWN1LW7w+BSuKsNcesE/PiDfAQypHdlI0ofyezUkTpPdAmfWc+wdyJIE0esO5hSUEcYPa41Sxv5MKh/l3dFVtQqdW32GV3/KNXA2mi/HXMzlGYf38bbgVJ9y5jcIX0FOf10Gs3r3d1keS1sOob7BXxOBG62TdLrL4O2C/DouoP5YzZu3XdWAFwE5VBz3CiI9mRzEtajODYePRpP9SCxJouI15xcjBgaMHU1rn5pVt95Wpwf Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTP via TCP6; 20 Apr 2020 01:17:35 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6448818053ED; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:17:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: 19 Apr 2020 21:17:34 -0400 Message-Id: <20200420011735.6448818053ED@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Subject: Re: GPL, not freebsd should be rewritten based on microkernel architecture In-Reply-To: Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49582G6yS1z4LjN X-Spamd-Bar: -------- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=iecc.com header.s=110a1.5e9cf830.k2004 header.b=kUeVqFmA; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=iecc.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of johnl@iecc.com designates 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=johnl@iecc.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-8.14 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[iecc.com:s=110a1.5e9cf830.k2004]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_MED(-2.00)[iecc.com.dwl.dnswl.org : 127.0.4.2]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2001:470:1f07:1126::/64]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[iecc.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[iecc.com,none]; IP_SCORE(-3.64)[ip: (-9.90), ipnet: 2001:470::/32(-4.65), asn: 6939(-3.60), country: US(-0.05)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:17:44 -0000 In article you write: >Thus I suspect if push came to shove in a legal fight about the legality of >GPL forcing third parties that just happen to use a GPL'ed project to give >up all claims over how their work is used would likely unconstitutional. I'd suggest not playing junior lawyer. The GPL is a contract and there have been successful cases to enforce it. Nobody has any inherent right to use GPL'ed software (or any other software not released into the public domain) so if you don't like the terms, don't use it. I am not crazy about the GPL and one of the things I like about FreeBSD is that most of it has much more reasonable licenses. R's, John