Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 20:55:57 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Not Compatible With GPL? Message-ID: <4.1.19990212205236.03ebb7c0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902121557260.18914-100000@s8-37-26.student. washington.edu> References: <199902122302.QAA23640@usr01.primenet.com>
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At 04:45 PM 2/12/99 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/02/12/0939216.shtml > >Funny, opensource.org says that BSD and GPL are both "opensource". Now FSF >says that the advertising clause (recently pointed out in this forum) is >not compatible with GPL. We can expect the FSF, and Stallman in particular, to become bolder as Linux grows more popular. They will both appropriate code without proper permission and seek to prevent others from using it. We may even see the FSF begin to take out software patents and license them ONLY to people who write code that's licensed under the GPL. Stallman claims that the purpose of the GPL is to make code "free," unlike that of Microsoft. Well, as the Who song so aptly put it, "Meet the new boss; same as the old boss." --Brett Glass P.S. -- The message tree at the above URL really *is* worth a read if one has even a passing interest in licensing issues. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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