[Fsf-friends] Copyleft Clauses

Ramanraj K ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in
Tue Oct 26 08:45:45 IST 2004


Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
 > Ramanraj K said on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:06:27AM +0530,:
 >
 >  > I actually came across the Microsoft site that offered gcc for it's
 >  > UNIX tools. I couldn't believe it when I saw it ...

No, thanks. I cannot take credit, because it is a forwarded message:

,------------ Original Message --------
| Subject: Re: RE.Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
| Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:27:10 -0600
| From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>
| Reply-To: Jon Drews  <jon.drews@gmail.com>
| To: estover@olc.edu
| CC:freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
| References:<1098590132.32627.20.camel@red>
`----


  > Actually, this story  is an excellent illustration of  why the GNU GPL
    > is better  than BSD (the license). If  the GCC were under  a BSD style
    > free non-copyleft license, customers  would have been left holding yet
    > another `extension' in their hands.

I am sure FreeBSD Developers may embrace the GPL whole heartedly, or we
may get to see copyleft clauses in the FreeBSD license.





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