Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 08:30:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <19980504083034.A356@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980503172238.09469@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 05:22:38PM -0500 References: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> <XFMail.980503144012.freelist@webweaver.net> <19980503172238.09469@right.PCS>
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On Sun, 3 May 1998 at 17:22:38 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On May 05, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700, Nicole wrote: >> >> I have heard one good argument against the FreeBSD liscense altho I >> don't know how true it is.. >> >> Their agument was that the license would allow someone (like M$) to >> take Freebsd and add some propritary stuff to it (like Front page >> extensions, active X etc) and sell it without having to give anything >> back to the FreeBSD group or even state that it was FreeBSD. >> >> Any comments? > > That's not a bug, it's a feature. :-) In fact, the BSD license *does* require acknowledgement of the sources. Read it again. And yes, Microsoft has done this already, at least indirectly. Do you think they wrote all of their TCP/IP code? On the other hand, compare what they made of it to the original and you'll see why there's no particular reason for concern. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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