From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 12 3:57:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from theinternet.com.au (c20631.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au [203.164.207.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4F237B405 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:57:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from akm@localhost) by theinternet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fBCBurt76513; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:56:53 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:56:53 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011212215653.P46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:30:29AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +-------[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]---------------------- | 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... That still doesn't answer the question though. I'm pretty sure IBM didn't sign *their* copyright over to the FSF. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message