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From: amanda@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free?
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Date: 11 Dec 1994 20:46:48 GMT
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[ Followups directed to gnu.misc.discuss _ again_.  Those who think a
  GPL vs. BSD copyright discussion is interesting probably already
  follow that group.  Let us spare the rest of the readers.

  If you feel it is important for you to get the last word in the
  comp.os.386bsd.misc group, please crosspost and direct followups to
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>>>>> "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.

Vernon> Look back at the old, public charges from rms about the evils CSRG was
Vernon> commiting by not putting a GPL on 4.3BSD (or perhaps it was
Vernon> net2).  

Specific references or quotes?

Vernon> Talk to some current contributors who have been browbeaten
Vernon> about not using the GPL on their own code.  

References?  Posting email from RMS is OK, he doesn't mind.

Vernon> By all accounts, the GPL people (not just the FSF) comply with
Vernon> other copyrights under protest.

There is no such entity as ``the GPL people''.  Please specify an
identifiable group, such as the FSF.

It is clear the FSF prefer the GPL over the BSD copyright, otherwise
they would not have invented it, and clearly RMS would like other
people to use it.  You have, however, provided no evdidence that they
consider people distributing software under the BSD copyright for
Traitors To Humanity.

To the contrary, the FSF does this themselves.

Again: Back up your claim, or post an apology.

Vernon> This has nothing to do with idiotic patents, except that the
Vernon> GPL mania is the obverse of patenting; it's only yet another
Vernon> class of people that wants to own and control the distribution
Vernon> what other people write.  Collectivists are no more moral or
Vernon> admirable than old fashioned robber barons or modern patent
Vernon> holders.

Nice rant.