Subject: Re: Eric Raymond talks about GPL and BSD licenses
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@NetBSD.org>
From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@MooseRiver.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/10/2005 21:35:45
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:43:19PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2005 at 20:08:37 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:47:15PM -0700, Tom Nakamura wrote:
> >> ESR is the biggest troll who just will not go away.
> >>
> >> 1) He's contributed very little code; his "Art of Unix Programming" is
> >> 300 pages of flamebait. 2) He hurts open source by mixing it with petty
> >> partisan politics; 3) He insists on the title "hacker", even though he
> >> doesn't even fit his own definition of what a hacker is, 4) acts like a
> >> 12 year old.
> >
> > He did write fetchmail=20
>=20
> I'm pretty sure he didn't.  Didn't he use fetchmail as an example in
> one of his books?

Greg,

Just checked. He has a copyright notice on 16 files. Example:

/*
 * env.c -- small service routines
 *
 * Copyright 1998 by Eric S. Raymond
 * For license terms, see the file COPYING in this directory.
 */
=20

in /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail/work/fetchmail-6.2.5/env.c




Josef

--=20
Josef Grosch           | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 5.4
jgrosch@MooseRiver.com |   Micro$oft free world  | Berkeley, Ca.

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