From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 23 14:33:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23300 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from g0d.tbe.net (qmailq@g0d.net [208.192.6.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA23276 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwb@g0d.tbe.net) Received: (qmail 14813 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 1998 22:32:41 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:32:30 -0500 (EST) From: "J. W. Brinkerhoff" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator In-Reply-To: <34c82454.17691507@mail.cetlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, John Kelly wrote: > This is an interesting case of BSD vs. GPL. > > If Netscape used a BSD type license, Microsoft could take it and add > improvements and hide the improvements. With GPL, they can still take > it, but can't hide the improvements. At least not without getting > sued by Netscape. > > So GPL is better for Netscape. However, if I remember correctly the announcment said "GPL-Like" rather than the actual GPL license. So we will have to see exactly what Netscape deems to be similar to the GPL. - -jwb _____ ___ ___ |_ _| _ ) __| James W. Brinkerhoff | | | _ \ _| TBE Network Security Administrator |_| |___/___| TBE Internet Services - 973.835.9696 Key fingerprint = 0E DA 27 39 91 1E B6 29 A4 D2 5E E5 FD 3B F4 3C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNMkahaifyqXAOLcdAQGuawP/Q/hvgXiHqx1wqjDJNLrmgB+HsZHbOIU1 VLQW6bhuhc70zeCkyEJ4T6fDFYf9Nvo5ogI4IL4RZcJah+0cZWIELRswcDhGaMcl dpLQD3E5tapiamEVvqBL6+818kI/ZVWfWwXS9abUwCLTkwU96FxM8tsGa1MiKVMB q/I7waH36rI= =2qyK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----