From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 07:27:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E275216A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FF143D2D for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net ([207.136.3.72]) by lerami.lerctr.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AeFaO-00050W-5u; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:27:08 -0600 Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:27:07 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman To: Shantanoo , Scott W Message-ID: <40620000.1073489227@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <20040107134537.GA415@dhumketu.homeunix.net> References: <3FFB7F8F.3010101@mindcore.net> <20040107134537.GA415@dhumketu.homeunix.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0 (Linux/x86) X-PGP-Info: All other keys are old/dead. X-PGP-Key: 0x3c49bdd6 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D0D1 3C11 F42F 6B29 FA67 6BF3 AD13 4685 3C49 BDD6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========FF484A46243B8817898E==========" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Distribution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:27:17 -0000 --==========FF484A46243B8817898E========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 19:15:37 +0530 Shantanoo=20 wrote: > +++ Scott W [freebsd] [06-01-04 22:39 -0500]: >| I know this one may be seen as sacrilege to some, but think about this: >| >| 1. *BSD uses a fairly significant amount of GNU and GPL licensed >| (opposed to the BSD license) code in it. gcc, Perl, XFree86, Apache, >| GNU Make, autoconf, mysql, PostgreSQL, etc etc. While it can be argued >| many/most of these are not part of the core OS, what about: gcc, >| objective c, libreadline, cvs, diff, tar, sort, patch and friends? >| (from /usr/src/gnu and /usr/src/usr.bin ) > > I think PostgreSQL is released under BSD license. It *IS* under the BSD license, and that won't change :-) (It's an RWAR every time it's mentioned to put it GPL). (I spend a lot of time on the PostgreSQL lists.). --=20 Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 --==========FF484A46243B8817898E========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//CVLrRNGhTxJvdYRAl8UAJ9eFhmbAt6mE3zZi/FhoKv7XK4ctQCfbkmd hhiqUM7bdB41QPyl2eLTVws= =E7By -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========FF484A46243B8817898E==========--