From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 22:56:16 2012 Return-Path: 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 A3FBD106566B for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:56:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com) Received: from mail.r-bonomi.com (mx-out.r-bonomi.com [204.87.227.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE198FC0C for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from bonomi@localhost) by mail.r-bonomi.com (8.14.4/rdb1) id q5MMuYom043974 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:56:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:56:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi Message-Id: <201206222256.q5MMuYom043974@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Why Clang 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: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:56:16 -0000 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > > There actually is/was a closed-source BSD (BSDI), and there is Mac OS X, with BSD under the covers. BSDi sold source-code licenses. I was an early-adopter, and I _have_ one. The vast majority of the code was taken directly from BSD 4.4 Lite, and the source-code carried just the UCB copyriht and licensinG, The 'missing pieces' necessary to make an 'operational' O/S were copyright BSDi, most had fairly liberal license terms. There were some _vendor_supplied drivers that were binary-only, and had more rstrictive licensing.`