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Date:      Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:17:38 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        jgrosch@mooseriver.com
Cc:        Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Eclipse/BSD 
Message-ID:  <20000209141739.0584D1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>  of "Wed, 09 Feb 2000 01:58:53 PST." <20000209015853.A59591@mooseriver.com> 

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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




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