From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 9 6:18:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9643E93 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 06:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0584D1CD7; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:17:39 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Joe Abley , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Eclipse/BSD In-Reply-To: Message from Josef Grosch of "Wed, 09 Feb 2000 01:58:53 PST." <20000209015853.A59591@mooseriver.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:17:38 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000209141739.0584D1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Grosch wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:27:12PM +1300, Joe Abley wrote: > > This may be old news, but I follow -hackers, -arch and -current and > > I hadn't seen it before: > > > > http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/ > > > > Would be interested to hear informed opinion as to whether these > > changes might find a permanent home in FreeBSD at some point in > > the future. > > The license terms do not seem very good. I would advise caution. The last > time we got into a pissing contest with these guys over license terms and > who owns what it cost us 2 years of development and momentum which we are > just now getting back. Without commenting on the license, Bell labs was not the group that was driving the lawsuit. It was AT&T/USG (Unix systems group) and later USL (unix support labs). Bell labs is now a part of Lucent these days anyway. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message