From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 19 10:15:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A31B11544 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24794; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:14:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd024601; Fri Feb 19 11:14:34 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02577; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:14:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902191814.LAA02577@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Fascinating GPL License 8) To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:14:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jcwells@u.washington.edu, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990218191626.00cc76a0@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 18, 99 07:17:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >If anything, the lack of a requirement to assign license to "The > >FreeBSD Project, Inc." or some other single entity, and the > >number of unassigned incorporated programs is what makes the > >list so large, were you to trigger the advertising clause. > > True. But on the other hand, the FSF asks that all copyrights > be assigned to it, and look what happens: the software becomes > part of the GNU Blob. UCB's CSRG had the same requirement for BSD code. It resulted in "one blob" as well... a "blob" with a BSD license, and only one advertising clause. 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