Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:15:16 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <20011218111516.B2061@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <3C1ED086.725352BC@outpost.co.nz>; from crh@outpost.co.nz on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:13:42PM %2B1300 References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <3C1ED086.725352BC@outpost.co.nz>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:13:42PM +1300, Craig Harding stood up and spoke: > > It's a matter of history. After so many endless threads over the last > few years on the evils (or otherwise) of the GPL, usually with Brett > Glass endlessly pushing his point of view to allcomers, I think you'll > find that most people subscribed to -chat are heartily sick of the > subject. Interestingly, looking back, have the past discussions of this issue actually changed anything or have they had any important influence on the Project? I guess not. These threads were probably no more than a little wasted bandwidth. As I have said in a message posted a minute ago, I don't see any immediate dangers. And I take for granted that no one is seriously about to transform FreeBSD into GNU/Linux. Therefore, everything's fine and this discussion may well stop here. Especially a month before a release, I guess we have better things to do: The coders should fix code, the users should test code, the writers should do any remaining work on the documentation. That would do much more help to the project than this GPL discussion, especially since at the moment it seems that we have really no problems to face in this regard (and I'm not going to tear the GPL apart as others have done. Subjective impressions are useless, only objective impressions count, and we are not going to get such a thing here any time soon - luckily, as about the only place to get a definite objective interpretation of something is in Court...). Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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