From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 19 1:14:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574FD37B43C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 01:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3J8EFk41415; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 01:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "Rahul Siddharthan" , "David Johnson" , Subject: RE: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 01:14:15 -0700 Message-ID: <009f01c0c8a8$b982ec80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010419004045.A44949@xor.obsecurity.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway >> >> FreeBSD does not use kernel code that carries a copyright that is >> not BSD-like, ie: a license that basically gives everyone >> permission to do whatever the hell they want with the code. > >Copyright != license agreement > Quite correct, I'm very aware of this as a writer. :-) Let me just plead, though, that it's traditional in software source to delinate the license in the same place as a statement of copyright is made, most people don't understand or care about the difference. (perhaps they should, though) A software patent is also different than a copyright and a license too. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message