From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 05:34:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F00237B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 05:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3CB43F75 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 05:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CB53D28; Sun, 4 May 2003 08:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 08:34:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3EB4D079.26872.32A7E84C@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: open source license with 24 month proprietary clause X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 12:34:03 -0000 Jeremy wrote: > Has anyone heard of an open source license where new code based on it can > be kept proprietary for 24 months? > > Then after the 24 months that code becomes part of the public code base. > > I read a magazine article saying that the BSD license does this 24 month > innovations claim. For the record, the BSD license does no such thing. (I know you know that...). > Time for a letter to the editor ... Details of the article please... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/