Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 08:52:13 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remark from Nick Petreley Message-ID: <19980823085213.A4977@flarn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980823041842.A924@notabene.zer0.org>; from GReg Sutter on Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 04:18:42AM -0700 References: <199808222241.QAA26221@lariat.lariat.org> <199808221921.NAA24991@lariat.lariat.org> <199808221921.NAA24991@lariat.lariat.org> <19980822135700.J924@notabene.zer0.org> <199808222241.QAA26221@lariat.lariat.org> <19980822162831.N924@notabene.zer0.org> <199808230107.TAA27100@lariat.lariat.org> <19980823041842.A924@notabene.zer0.org>
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On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 04:18:42AM -0700, GReg Sutter wrote: > Not everyone automagically believes GPL == death. In fact, I just > prepared a piece of my software to be released under the GPL. I chose > it over the Artistic and XFree86 style licenses because I feel it is more > appropriate for the software -- an antispam package. Anyone can use it, > even the accursed spammers (who would use it if it benefitted them > anyway, no matter what the licensing said), but nobody packages and > sells what I wrote to benefit the Net. As somebody who was quite involved in the early days of this software, I would be proud if somebody packaged and sold it, and would consider it to be a benefit to the Net; spam stopped is spam stopped, whether the user got a tarball from you or a CD-ROM and 4-color manual from CodeBeUs. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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