From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 8 21:45:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 0E58B37B401; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:45:33 -0700 From: arch@hub.freebsd.org To: arch@hub.freebsd.org Subject: (FWD) Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010708214532.C90759@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Forwarded message from Mike Smith ----- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:26:07 -0700 > >> As I said, this comes up every 4-6 months, I make the same offer, > >> it gets discussed, and it dies for another few months. :-) > > > > The sticking point with this is that FreeBSD is not just a "free OS"; > > it's commonly reused in non-free contexts, and it's an important concern > > to us that this should continue to be possible. > > Yes, but is it a concern that people be able to use it in non-FreeBSD > contexts? What counts as a "FreeBSD context"? If someone recycles code from FreeBSD into a product, like, say Apple into Darwin, is this still a "FreeBSD context"? When they sell it as OS X, is that still a "FreeBSD context"? Looking at it from your point of view, I'd have to say that it isn't, and that's the rub. > I'm happy to allow any FreeBSD use -- what you're protecting here is > the ability of a downstream vendor to extract a single piece of the > code and use it independently of FreeBSD, and I don't understand why > that's important to you. Because this is one of the things that FreeBSD offers the rest of the world; not just a complete operating system, but an excellent source of tested, maintained software that can be reused in any context, for any purpose. While we stick to that as part of our goals, we can't compromise our license criteria. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message