From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 25 06:23:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE4C16A40F for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:23:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DB843D60 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:22:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by pukruppa.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAP6NcUe022141; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:23:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:23:37 +0100 (CET) From: "P.U.Kruppa" To: Mike Hauber In-Reply-To: <200611242144.05499.mchauber@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20061125072616.T12918@pukruppa.net> References: <200611242144.05499.mchauber@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "FreeBSD, Questions" Subject: Re: BSD folks position on GPL, Novell, IBM, SCO, and MS... 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: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:23:35 -0000 On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Mike Hauber wrote: > i am by no means trolling here. I just haven't heard much of anything from > the BSD community on the subjects, and would like to know the general > consensus. Being that this is more of a support mailing list, if one could > direct me to where I can ask this question appropriately, or if folks would > reply only to my email addy, that would be fine, too. Impositions here are > not my intent. > > I have been an avid user of the BSDs (mostly FreeBSD and OpenBSD), and have > experimented with the Linuses for a good while now (Mainly Debian, RH, and > SuSe). I pretty much get it that the BSD folks and the Linux folks don't see > eye-to-eye on licensing issues, but it seems to me that the overall attempt > of both communities seems to be "get the code out there and keep it free." > > I was just wondering what the general consensus was on the GPL, Linux in > general, SCOs lawsuit, Sun's open sourcing, IBMs contributions to Linux, > Novell's contributions, Novell's deal with MS and how this really affects > SuSe (there's a lot of hype on that and I literally don't know what to > believe at this point). > > Being that most folks here would be in positions of having to deal with a > variety of OSs and have in the past dealt with opposing forces at work, I > figured there would be at least one or two educated folks I could gleen from. > > Thanks, and sorry for the imposition, > > Mike > > > PS... One more question... Being that Linux emulation is available as a port > for the BSDs, I would assume (but haven't taken the time to research) that > GPLd code is used. If there comes to be issues with Linux, what would that > mean for BSDs compatibility in regards to emulation? I think there's a list called freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org for non-technical discussions. Regards, Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany