From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 13 13: 4: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F4237B415 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from box014.labs.pitt.edu ("port 4145"@[130.49.141.25]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K4Q2PLZ9KI001OJJ@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:03:44 EST Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:03:14 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: Perens Replies (was Ivan Leybovich) In-reply-to: <20010613185817.93575.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com> Originator-info: login-id=pfg1; server=imap.pitt.edu To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bzdik BSD Message-id: <310748704.992448194@box014.labs.pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.3 (Win32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:58 AM -0700 Bzdik BSD wrote:r > Name: Bruce Perens ... > Occupation: Strategist for HP, and Open Source Evangelist > Oh so HP will GPL their calculator and printer firmware?? They must be pretty screwed up to hire an "evangelist". > BSD licensing is a failing business plan for the developer. It's only a > good business plan for someone who wants to take that developer's work > without paying for it. In contrast, HP is currently negotiating a > commercial license with a GPL developer. Since the GPL doesn't allow > integration of his work into the proprietary (non-Linux) product where > we needed it, we had to go to him and negotiate another license. If > he'd used the BSD license, we would not have needed to do that. > Seems like he just admitted that the GPL is not free software after all !!! Free as in FreeBSD I mean. > By the way, I did ask Brian Behlendorf, but he was on vacation and > could not respond in time. He said later that he would have signed. > Of course...OK I'll fall, whom is Brian Behlendorf??? Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message