Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:23:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dennisjun@home.com (Dennis Jun) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <200102210823.BAA10635@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> from "Dennis Jun" at Feb 21, 2001 01:32:53 AM
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> 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. If it weren't for legal liability, our code would be public domain. The UCB license is as close as we can get, without legislative reform. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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