Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:55:59 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011212105559.19177.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <52753.1008153029@critter.freebsd.dk>
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hi, why would RMS sue, lets say me, for porting IBM's piece of GPL'ed code to FreeBSD src/gnu. What i will be doing (if the votes come out positive), will be exactly as how his law says... --- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In message > <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>, > Andrew Kenneth Milt > on writes: > >+-------[ Terry Lambert ]---------------------- > >| > >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people > distributing bipartite > >| distributions, where the linking is delayed until > installation to > >| work around the letter of the GPL. Given his > religious convictions, > >| I can't see him *not*. Factor that into your > decision. > > > >Just to balance this point out; > > > >Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of > any significance has > >RMS contributed recently to this or any other > project where this would be > >a consideration? > > Uh, people have been signing their copyright over to > FSF for a long > time... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be > explained by incompetence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of > the message ===== -Hiten, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, Hiten Pandya, <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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