Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 12:23:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53942 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl Message-ID: <202003011223.021CNeqW095289@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: carlavilla Date: Sun Mar 1 12:23:40 2020 New Revision: 53942 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53942 Log: Fixes a few things in the bsdl-gpl article: inconsistency regarding AT&T at the beginning of the text, which later becomes ATT: I choosed to always use AT&T; style improvement: change "adds additional" into "adds more"; change "Addenda" into "Bibliographical References", since that is what is in the section; fix typos. Submitted by: salvadore@ Reviewed by: carlavilla@ Approved by: bcr@(mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23588 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.xml Sat Feb 29 18:06:43 2020 (r53941) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.xml Sun Mar 1 12:23:40 2020 (r53942) @@ -97,19 +97,19 @@ under what became known as <quote>the BSD license</quote>. A customer purchased Unix from AT&T and then ordered a BSD tape from UCB.</para> - <para>In the mid-1980s a government anti-trust case against ATT - ended with the break-up of ATT. ATT still owned Unix and was now - able to sell it. ATT embarked on an aggressive licensing effort - and most commercial Unixes of the day became ATT-derived.</para> + <para>In the mid-1980s a government anti-trust case against AT&T + ended with the break-up of AT&T. AT&T still owned Unix and was now + able to sell it. AT&T embarked on an aggressive licensing effort + and most commercial Unixes of the day became AT&T-derived.</para> - <para>In the early 1990's ATT sued UCB over license violations - related to BSD. UCB discovered that ATT had incorporated, without - acknowledgment or payment, many improvements due to BSD into ATT's - products, and a lengthy court case, primarily between ATT and UCB, + <para>In the early 1990's AT&T sued UCB over license violations + related to BSD. UCB discovered that AT&T had incorporated, without + acknowledgment or payment, many improvements due to BSD into AT&T's + products, and a lengthy court case, primarily between AT&T and UCB, ensued. During this period some UCB programmers embarked on a - project to rewrite any ATT code associated with BSD. This project + project to rewrite any AT&T code associated with BSD. This project resulted in a system called BSD 4.4-lite (lite because it was not - a complete system; it lacked 6 key ATT files).</para> + a complete system; it lacked 6 key AT&T files).</para> <para>A lengthy series of articles published slightly later in Dr. Dobbs magazine described a BSD-derived 386 PC version of Unix, @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ William Jolitz. It became the original basis of all the PC BSDs in use today.</para> - <para>In the mid 1990s, Novell purchased ATT's Unix rights and a + <para>In the mid 1990s, Novell purchased AT&T's Unix rights and a (then secret) agreement was reached to terminate the lawsuit. UCB soon terminated its support for BSD.</para> </sect1> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ the <link xlink:href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php">LGPL</link>; ("Library", since renamed to "Lesser", GPL). The LGPL allows proprietary code to be linked to the GNU C library, glibc. You do - not have to release the source to code which has been dynamically + not have to release the source code which has been dynamically linked to an LGPLed library.</para> <para>If you statically link an application with glibc, such as is @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ <listitem><para>In many cases, the long-term results of a BSD style license more accurately reflect the goals proclaimed in - the research charter of universities then what occurs when + the research charter of universities than what occurs when results are copyrighted or patented and subject to proprietary university licensing. Anecdotal evidence exists that universities are financially better rewarded in the long run by @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ used, the resulting software will usually devolve to whoever actually makes the majority of the engineering changes and most understands the state of the system. The GPL simply adds - additional legal friction to the result.</para></listitem> + more legal friction to the result.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Large companies, in which Open Source code is developed, should be aware that programmers appreciate Open Source @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ </sect1> <sect1 xml:id="addenda"> - <title>Addenda</title> + <title>Bibliographical References</title> <programlisting> [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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