Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:17:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@home.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <20010220231714.A46829@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma>; from dennisjun@home.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:32:53AM -0500 References: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:32:53AM -0500, Dennis Jun wrote: > Hello all! >=20 > A Linux friend of mine and I were chatting bout the BSD licence versus the > GPL. He was asking me how *BSD developers felt about that their code could > (and has) being used by commercial companies and in turn becomes closed in > the end. That is, you don't know if your code will stay open or not. He > asked doesn't that bother BSD developers? I thought this was a very > interesting question. I couldn't give him a really good answer since I'm > not a programmer. So I wanted to ask some people who do program and > contribute to BSD what their thoughts on this is. Does it bother you? Is > it even an issue? Much thanx in advance. I think it's great! If it saves someone the time, money and effort of redeveloping similar code from scratch, then we've helped to raise the bar of software quality in use out there by providing a high-quality starting point they can work from, and in some small way made the world a better place. Kris --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6k2t6Wry0BWjoQKURAkGDAJ9O0GYyoVNSEw3FArd13AB80vyPRACgxHRu yT/hjIAe6BJ81t4ekCUYkTQ= =rvsd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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