From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 19 17:40: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E8337B669 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 17:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA17574; Fri, 19 May 2000 18:39:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000519183732.042e79e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:39:30 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000520035431.B25168@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.1.2.20000519144654.04244100@localhost> <3924803C.7C5BD92C@mail.ptd.net> <000001bfbf78$b1b345c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3924803C.7C5BD92C@mail.ptd.net> <20000519085123.C28431@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.1.2.20000519144654.04244100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:24 PM 5/19/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > This assertion is a trap and a snare. The moment *one contributor* > > submits new code under the new license, the entire work is > > contaminated by the new license. Stallman is being disingenuous, as > >If you are the maintainer, you don't have to accept code under the >new license. If the project is a "GNU" project, then the FSF has control of it. If it is not, odds are that it is run by someone who has bought into Stallman's rhetoric, does not understand the harm that the GPL does (after all, he used the previous version), and/or does not understand the problem of license contamination. Thus, the problem spreads -- again, due to Stallman's disingenuousness. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message