From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 27 07:32:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044751065672 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:32:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0DA13C4FA for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:32:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m1R7Waro015404; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:33:37 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 In-Reply-To: <20080227072638.GA2848@kobe.laptop> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:32:37 -0800 (PST) Cc: Daniel Jennings , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Open source quiry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:32:50 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Giorgos > Keramidas > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:27 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Daniel Jennings; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Open source quiry > > > On 2008-02-26 22:53, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>On 2008-02-26 11:33, Daniel Jennings wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> Recently I was told that 2wire dsl gateways http://www.2wire.com use > >>> a variant of rt FreeBSD. > >> > >> The FreeBSD license allows reuse of the source code. In fact, this > >> is one of the stated goals of the project. `To provide a modern UNIX > >> system, with no strings attached.' > >> > >> > If this is true are they required to make the source code available > >> > to the public? And if so how does one go about getting the GPL > >> > source > >> > >> Not necessarily. Depending on how meticulous they have been in their > >> efforts to properly compartmentalize their own stuff, the BSD license > >> allows commercial reuse of the source code. > > > > The BSD license allows commercial reuse of the code with no > > requirement to disclose modifications, and no requirement to > > "compartmentalize" > > > > The GPL license is what your probably thinking on the > > "compartmentalize" thing, and the GPL zealots modify the GPL on a > > regular basis to make whatever "compartmentalization" schemes that > > people work out, impossible. > > > > Pretty soon the GPL will be claiming that programs that exec() GPL > > programs are required to be licensed under GPL!!!! > > Hi Ted :) > > That's stretching it a bit, but I know where the you are coming from. > > There's a very good way of removing the limits this sort of thing can > make possible: `Develop BSD code'. I'm sure you know that, so this is > more for the random thread reader. The best way to improve BSD is not > to `fight' the GPL but to embrace the BDSL and, well, sit down and write > something that extends and improves BSD :) > But, BSD is already so far ahead of GNU/Linux that I wouldn't want the GPL folk to get too discouraged... Ted