From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 21 04:32:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20908 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20903 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA15654; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:32:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA29766; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:32:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980921133218.15796@follo.net> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:32:18 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Mike Smith , "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the Intel-UNIX standard References: <3605C5CB.C61EAC21@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <199809210446.VAA03265@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199809210446.VAA03265@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 09:46:24PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 09:46:24PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > A GPL is inconvenient because companies won't want to be forced to > > distribute source code of a key part with the OS. GPL was designed to > > live only with GPL and I don't think Compaq, IBM and SUN will accept it. > > We must start pressing for a BSD-like license here. > > OTOH the Open Group is already understanding ... > > There's no need for the reference implementation to be GPL-contaminated > - it can be shipped as patches to the Linux kernel rather than > integrated with it, and those patches need not be GPL'ed. I don't think this is correct. I believe the patches would count as a derived work, and thus would be covered by the GPL. :-( Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message