Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:32:39 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com> Cc: hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'sef@kithrup.com'" <sef@kithrup.com> Subject: RE: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980123133010.29251E-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <34C825ED@smginc.com>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Adam Turoff wrote: > > Uh, no. According to the press announcement, the source is going out > under the GPL. They get the rights to see any new feature someone > comes up with and can't limit use of the source. Should be free to use > with the *BSD/Linux/etc. CDs. > > How they're going to deal with that and make the value added versions > worth paying for and not GPL'ed is going to be interesting. It is a promotional exercise. They get 10000 hackers brains making Netscape's browser the best in the world, and so corporations will naturally go to Netscape for web and proxy servers etc. What I like about this announcement is that it necessarily becomes legal to carry a Netscape mirror site (I hope!) Danny
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