Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:48:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: mcneills@inw.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good InfoWorld Article Message-ID: <199903030148.SAA29832@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302093341.040f2100@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Mar 2, 99 09:35:09 am
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> The only bad thing about Petreley's article is that he claims to be > of what he calls the "Who Cares movement," meaning that he doesn't > care (or claims not to care) about licensing issues. This is very > bad judgment, because he is ignoring the destructive effects of > the GPL. This is the distinction between "use" and "utilize", again. If you are merely going to utilize the code, instead of using to prepare derivative works, then you honestly don't care about the license. For example, FreeBSD utilizes GNU programming tools to build FreeBSD, and could really care less that they are GNU (with the exception that binutils orphaned a.out). If FreeBSD cared, there would be a strong push for different tools (e.g. TenDRA). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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