From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 05:00:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7C710656A6 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:00:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D85A8FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-iw0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 36so6140146iwn.13 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:00:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/YxUCYBO2qlqwOom4MFcW/F85UrclXFokNN67S0Ke0k=; b=FKUVcFp/YlyeYoztR0vva16WE8KfrBi7tv5sg194r5435iGA272qJgqfKK6YRowvmT DVsxCVj/9syzODzbTavpXocqnC8Clo/Gt351beQYcz18EWC5YE1MZVox6JU7m0sGnQzr qOwVptGtSdXgZbluXPNCSDwmxXOwE+YcMEakM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tVBxozy4S0FwSdzPOAH859oQi+cdqdZqtMybTj5dHjpIr9+WyuABboZPvHRF0nrSEI /5dkj1dPs0YXSgqjRSlSxfKhspuTcKGAK4/Q/IXMJ8liEg7LyVW0mvLAZlCnZa/2ZvKv w+anFrDTKWuc/RqeAWBL6KJG8Npl40PTl7mcw= Received: by 10.231.15.73 with SMTP id j9mr69139iba.23.1282539636000; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-24-14-170-47.hsd1.il.comcast.net [24.14.170.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r3sm5763016ibk.13.2010.08.22.22.00.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C720074.8060705@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:36 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <008c01cb425a$2603bc60$720b3520$@com> In-Reply-To: <008c01cb425a$2603bc60$720b3520$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is this bunk. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:00:36 -0000 On 8/22/2010 7:25 PM, Garry wrote: > Mac OS X is basically BSD that's been appleised (serious vendor lock-in), > they do give a little back to BSDs, but have made sure that BSDs can't get > much off of them, but they can get a lot out of BSD. Oh the corny quote, "If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you, it was meant to be." GPL is viral, restrictive, forces the code to come back and you can go to court if it doesn't. Code from OpenBSD is used with the Linux kernel, but because of the GPL even Linux kernel modules must be GPLed so the code cannot go back to OpenBSD. It's a theft in the spirit of open source, since it cannot be given back. There are rumors that the CDDL was written to be BSD style and not GPL compatible. Apache and Sendmail are both BSD licensed, but I don't see them getting "stolen." As for the GPL itself, I think the biggest problem is who controls it and who enforces it. Companies get sued over busybox frequently, and not by the busybox developers. Stallman's views about how computers should work amounts to near anarchy .