From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 18:11:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14615 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from webserver.smginc.com (webserver.smginc.com [204.170.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14588 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from AdamT@smginc.com) Received: from smginc.com ([204.170.177.4]) by webserver.smginc.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-13723) with SMTP id AAA250; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:12:13 -0500 Received: by smginc.com with Microsoft Mail id <34C825ED@smginc.com>; Thu, 22 Jan 98 21:09:01 PST From: Adam Turoff To: hackers , "'sef@kithrup.com'" Subject: RE: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator Date: Thu, 22 Jan 98 21:10:00 PST Message-ID: <34C825ED@smginc.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Please bear in mind there is a good chance that it will be released under a > "for non-commercial use only" license, in which case it won't be able to be on > the freebsd cdrom. Still. Uh, no. According to the press announcement, the source is going out under the GPL. They get the rights to see any new feature someone comes up with and can't limit use of the source. Should be free to use with the *BSD/Linux/etc. CDs. How they're going to deal with that and make the value added versions worth paying for and not GPL'ed is going to be interesting. -- Adam.