On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:55:55PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > being GPL is "dangerous" ... the big boyz with $$$ can do and will > do what they want with all the (free) r/d work for the past few decades
Huh? I thought the GPL was supposed to protect against such! Unless they buy the copyright, which in many cases is virutally impossible as its owned by many people, they can't relicense - and the GPL does not permit non-GPL derived works. So what's the problem? > and dangling $$$ in front of the "primary" people that controls the > servers or the infrastructure of that distro and that distro dies > overnight ( people are usually "buyable" ) Debian isn't buyable. I don't particularly care if more commercial distros snuff it, or get bought out by evil empires - all they're really buying is a brand name. The free software itself can't be bought out. The worst they can do is buy out the copyright, relicense and create a non-free derivative - but in that case we can fork it from the last free version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
