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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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