Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 22:45:59 +0500 (GMT) From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Jikes license ??? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.981209223958.5438B-100000@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <28336.913256135@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Please don't panic, but I have a bad feeling about this article in > > Why should we panic? All I see is some speculation about what might > happen with IBM's license. I doubt IBM themselves are all that sure > yet. > Lawyers + Linux fanatics....VERY dangerous !!! > Having Jikes be GPL'd would hardly be the end of the world. It's > still usable as a compiler and I don't think that having GCC be GPL'd > has exactly hampered our efforts. We already have enough splinter > groups in the gcc community as it is anyway. :) > I can't resist rephrasing that: We already have enough splinter in the *BSD groups without GPL anyway ;-). Seriously, something like this happened with KDE, and the mixture of commercial and GPL licenses is killing the project. Pedro. > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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