From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 20 22:32:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.rdc1.on.home.com (femail1.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC3737B4EC for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennisjun@home.com) Received: from wilma ([24.114.163.66]) by femail1.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010221063142.EZVV24578.femail1.rdc1.on.home.com@wilma> for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:31:42 -0800 Message-ID: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> From: "Dennis Jun" To: Subject: BSD licence vs GPL Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:32:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all! 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message