Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: What does "free" mean, eh? (Re: Scareware) Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 90 21:51:25 GMT References: <1142@mtxinu.UUCP> <306@isgtec.UUCP> <7401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV's message of 13 Mar 90 18:53:16 GMT In article <7401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: But for a package like Perl, which is self-contained and doesn't trigger the so-called "virus", the GPL is close to what I want. It provides a framework of protections for everyone involved. I feel exactly the same way about my 'Freemacs' text editor (for MS-LOSS) and the 'Packet Drivers' (again, for MS-LOSS). Both are self-contained and give the contributors and I some protection from misappropriation. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems