Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:53:57 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) Message-ID: <38753925.C30D57B@softweyr.com> References: <200001051410.JAA08116@blackhelicopters.org>
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Michael Lucas wrote: > > You know, Wes asked me some time ago to join -advocacy. I found some > free time, did so. > > And the first thread I see involves him smacking a keyboard. > > You know, Wes, I would have joined this group quite some time ago if > I'd known what it was *really* about. It's about time you showed up here. Where's your keyboard print? > ObContent: The GPL has a variety of license documents, explaining why > it's good and what it's for. Is there such an article about the BSDL > that I can point people to? Yeah, straight from the horse's^W^W Kirk McKusick: http://www.sendmail.net/?CssUID=&CssServer=&SessionName=&feed=interview004 "you had copyright, which is what the big companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then Berkeley had what we called "copycenter," which is "take it down to the copy center and make as many copies as you want." You want to go off and do proprietary things with it? Fine, you can do that. You want to keep it out in the Open Source domain? You're welcome to do that as well." -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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