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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:17858 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4401 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Message-ID: <D0nLMs.69A@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 15:56:52 GMT References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec7103038@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <D0GvM0.5EA@calcite.rhyolite.com> <AMANDA.94Dec10155821@micro.iesd.auc.dk> Lines: 34 In article <AMANDA.94Dec10155821@micro.iesd.auc.dk> amanda@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes: >>>>>> "Vernon" == Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> writes: > >Vernon> - The GPL people think people working on BSD software >Vernon> without adding GPL's are Traitors To Humanity. > >FUD! > >The FSF (``GPL People'' if anyone are) distributes BSD software >without adding the GPL. They hardly think of themselves as ``Traitors >To Humanity''. > >Please post an apology. If anyone owes anyone an apology, it is you who owe me one. Look back at the old, public charges from rms about the evils CSRG was commiting by not putting a GPL on 4.3BSD (or perhaps it was net2). Talk to some current contributors who have been browbeaten about not using the GPL on their own code. By all accounts, the GPL people (not just the FSF) comply with other copyrights under protest. Anyone who wants to use the GPL should be and is inarguably free to do so. The only controversy concerns people who do not want to use the GPL. This has nothing to do with idiotic patents, except that the GPL mania is the obverse of patenting; it's only yet another class of people that wants to own and control the distribution what other people write. Collectivists are no more moral or admirable than old fashioned robber barons or modern patent holders. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com