Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:13:00 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: schwenk@math.udel.edu (Peter Schwenk) Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) Message-ID: <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <3875F2CC.6A771456@math.udel.edu> from Peter Schwenk at "Jan 7, 2000 9: 6: 4 am"
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From a business standpoint, yes, the BSDL is delightful. "Here, have this, it's free, do whatever you want with it." What business wouldn't like that? But what do *we* get out of it? Simply the satisfaction of knowing your work is in a photocopier's brain? ==ml > It appears to me, at least from a business standpoint, that the BSDL is the > free-est of all in that all it requires of the licensee is recognition of the > source of the work. I think that's why Apple's used it for it's upcoming Mac OS > X. They can use the FreeBSD source and still not be required to ship source with > their product. That way they can keep whatever fancy stuff they've done to it > private and keep a competitive advantage. Not very cool from a GPL, Open Source > standpoint, but I'm sure Apple likes it. I thought I heard a rumor that Apple has > contributed some source back to the FreeBSD project, but that's just hearsay. > > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > So, is there any highfalutin' purpose behind the BSDL? Or is it as > > nonpolitical as it appears to be? Having had this argument many > > times, I'd like something better than "we don't care"; from an > > advocacy point of view, that never comes across well. > > -- > PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator > Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware > schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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