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| DATE | 2002-05-07 |
| FROM | wynkoop@wynn.com
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] php license
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On a day in May ruben Babbled...
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> GPL incompatible is not free.
Ruben-
Since you put me on this list I have diverted most of the messages to
/dev/null, and I have resisted the temptation to reply to several of your
more inane postings to the list. You are charismatic, full of energy and
willing to work hard and push for your views. I must say that you have
accomplished a lot in organizing this group even if you did lie to me a
few weeks ago when you said it was a Free Software group, and not a Linux
group. If it really was a free software group you would not be making
stupid statements like the one above. Where do you think much of the
utilities and user level code that is on a linux box came from? If you
said UC Berkley you would be right. Where did Linux get a good TCP/IP
stack from? If you said Berkley you would again be right. I must say
that if you really believe that a GPL incompatible license is not free
then you need a to take the blinders off and look around a little. There
are those that would argue that the BSD license gives even more freedom
because it is the developer's choice to provide source code or not.
I seem to remember just a few short years ago when I was trying to
get you to switch from your crashing Windows box and you fought every
step of the way. I did try to broden and further your education in this
field, but like so many religious converts you became an immediate
fundamentalist zelot for your own version of the free software band wagon.
Calm down a little, take a chill pill, and look at the broader
picture.
I will have to pull my support for the CUNY demonstration. It
is clear that since many of the things I work with everyday and was
planning to demo at the CUNY presnetation are covered by the BSD license,
or a BSD compatible license you do not want any BSD code
polluting your Ruben Safir Linux Dog & Pony Show & Flying circus.
ALERT ALERT ALERT BSD CODE DETECTED
[localhost:~] wynkoop% telnet www2.mrbrklyn.com smtp
Trying 216.254.112.136...
Connected to www2.mrbrklyn.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 www2.mrbrklyn.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5;
Tue, 7 May 2002 02:12:38 -0400
Please remember to do an rm -f sendmail on your own servers
after you get this message. You would not want your own boxes polluted
with that nasty BSD license in sendmail now would you.
I seem to recall that you have been asking me to do a
lecture/discussion on sendmail for this group. Are you really sure you
want me to address this group about a piece of software not covered by
the One and Only True Free Software License! Hallelujah!
I still do plan to give the security talk, but be warned that code
released under many different licenses may come up. I would not want the
temple walls to crumble down around us at the mention of BSD.
-Brett
(who's .sig is a polite legnth.....)
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