Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:30:29 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:30:17 %2B1000." <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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In message <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, Andrew Kenneth Milt on writes: >+-------[ Terry Lambert ]---------------------- >| >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite >| distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to >| work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions, >| I can't see him *not*. Factor that into your decision. > >Just to balance this point out; > >Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has >RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be >a consideration? Uh, people have been signing their copyright over to FSF for a long time... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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