Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:31:01 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What operating system BSD that makes possible the existence of Internet? Message-ID: <20140315173101.c1cbccb2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <COL127-W318D93B9B8D8D6ECD79337E8730@phx.gbl> References: <COL127-W318D93B9B8D8D6ECD79337E8730@phx.gbl>
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(Re-including list, hope that's okay.) On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:24:44 +0300, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: > And the DragonflyBSD? I don't know enough about how DragonflyBSD is being used in production, but at least it shares the BSD license and currently is under active development, so it's quite possible that it will also already be part of some infrastructure that keeps the Internet running. There are other "BSD derivates" being used in fire- walls (pfSense), desktops (PC-BSD) or NAS (FreeNAS), but I would not call them "essentials of the Internet". Still the work of those projects, like Free/Open/NetBSD, can already be part of commercial solutions without the "manufacturer" giving any hint about this fact. Note that the BSD license explicitely allows this kind of usage, that's why it's often called a "rape me license" among Linux advocates. Luckily, a developer is free to decide if he wants the BSDL, the GPLv2 or GPLv3, or a custom license to apply to his works. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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