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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:17894 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4464 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD free? Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D0yvys.810@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec7103038@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <AMANDA.94Dec10155821@micro.iesd.auc.dk> <D0nLMs.69A@calcite.rhyolite.com> <MIB.94Dec12050805@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 18:13:40 GMT Lines: 14 In article <MIB.94Dec12050805@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Michael I Bushnell <mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: >It is the FSF's opinion that using the GPL advances the cause of free >software. While software copyrighted under the BSD copyright is >certainly free, derivates are not necessarily so, and so the BSD >copyright is less effective at advancing the cause of free software. The problem is that different people have different ideas of what "the cause of free software" means. In practical terms the GPL and the BSD copyright are only going to be followed in spirit by people who want to follow them anyway, so this whole debate is about as dramatic as the split between the churches of England and Rome, as seen by an atheist. Followups to gnu.misc.discuss only.