Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

Actually, Ted, to us newbies, it is uninteresting. Most of us come
from Linux and know the GPL fairly well by now. Since YANAL (You Are
Not All Lawyers), I think these discussions are kind of a waste of
time


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:13:28 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miguel Mendez [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:59 AM
> > To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> > Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence
> >
> >
> > I don't know if you're aware of this, but this kind is *useless*
> > discussion has been going on on the mailing lists for *years*. Check
> > groups.google.com and you'll see that everything you might want to add
> > about GPL vs BSD has already been said a hundred times. John Dyson
> > posted a lot about it, then Brett Glass did for a while, and now you.
> >
> 
> Have you ever stopped a minute to think about why this is?
> 
> FreeBSD is not a dead operating system.  Every day there are dozens if
> not hundreds of NEW UERS who have NEVER encountered these 'useless
> discussions'.  To them, these discussions are not uninteresting, and
> provide much needed background.  Furthermore the topics keep coming
> up because these licenses are being applied all of the time to new
> software packages all of the time.  There are always new situations
> that these licenses are being used in.
> 
> > If the time wasted on these rants had gone into writing software we'd
> > have a 100% BSDL system today. My very humble suggestion is that you
> > please take this somewhere else. I've never seen a GPL advocate 'see the
> > light' and start licensing his software under the BSD license after
> > having a conversation with a BSD 'zealot', or vice versa.
> >
> 
> You probably missed the issue if you think this is a discussion meant
> to convince someone BSD is better than GPL.  The people on this list
> already KNOW that BSD is better than GPL.  They don't need convincing.
> What they DO need to know, however, is WHY.  That is educational discussion
> not useless argument.
> 
> My humble suggestion to you is that you shake off the idea you seem
> to have that the ultimate goal is a 'finished' 100% BSDL system.  If
> that ever happened, BSD would be dead.
> 
> Minix is a 'finished' system.  Xenix is a 'finished' system.  Covalent
> is a 'finished' system.  FreeBSD is not, and hopefully never will be.
> 
> Ted
> 
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