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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:49:11 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>
To:        keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
Cc:        Colin <cwass99@home.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Eclipse/BSD
Message-ID:  <200002102349.JAA60668@mail.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000210155149.C478@hades.hell.gr> from Giorgos Keramidas at "Feb 10, 2000 03:51:49 pm"

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+----[ Giorgos Keramidas ]---------------------------------------------
| On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 08:56:09PM -0500, Colin wrote:
| > 
| > As interesting as this looks, unfortunately the license it comes with
| > efffectively precludes incorporating it into FreeBSD.  The license is
| > for single-user non-commercial only.  They also included derivative
| > works in the restrictions.
| 
| So much for Stallman's efforts to be the meanest man on earth when it
| comes to "derivatives".  They sure have beat him here :/

I don't think that that is an entirely fair analysis. They are afterall
a business, and business units need to justify their existence.

If it goes the normal way Lucent goes, Eclipse as a unit (license, staff etc)
will be sold off to the highest bidder at some point down the track.

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