Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:58:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Perens Replies (was Ivan Leybovich) Message-ID: <20010613185817.93575.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com>
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Name: Bruce Perens Email: bruce@perens.com Location: Berkeley, CA, USA Occupation: Strategist for HP, and Open Source Evangelist BSD licensing is a failing business plan for the developer. It's only a good business plan for someone who wants to take that developer's work without paying for it. In contrast, HP is currently negotiating a commercial license with a GPL developer. Since the GPL doesn't allow integration of his work into the proprietary (non-Linux) product where we needed it, we had to go to him and negotiate another license. If he'd used the BSD license, we would not have needed to do that. By the way, I did ask Brian Behlendorf, but he was on vacation and could not respond in time. He said later that he would have signed. Bruce __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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