From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 12:21:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE0D37B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:21:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f25KKbo21497; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:20:37 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3AA3E70C.B822C87F@acuson.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305004222.00cfe2a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010303132348.04461420@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305004222.00cfe2a0@localhost> <20010305134937.K80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost> <20010305200017.D80474@lpt.ens.fr> <3AA3E70C.B822C87F@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:10:08 +0100 To: David Johnson , Rahul Siddharthan From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:20 AM -0800 3/5/01, David Johnson wrote: > By his own definitions, the BSD license is "freer" > than Mr. Stallman's own GNU licenses. He tells us that copyright is evil > and then encourages us to use an copyright based license. Not the way he seems to define freedom. He contrasts the "Open Source" movement with the "Free Software" movement, by saying that the former allows itself to co-exist in a common market in conjunction with commercial closed-source software, whereas the latter is working to actively eliminate all possibility of commercial closed-source software and to supplant it with *only* so-called "Free Software" (which cannot be taken closed-source). Therefore, the BSD license is more "open" than the GNU license, but by his terms, it is not more "free". -- ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message