From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 18:34:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16650 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16549 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:33:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19735; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:32:39 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:32:39 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Adam Turoff cc: hackers , "'sef@kithrup.com'" Subject: RE: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator In-Reply-To: <34C825ED@smginc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Adam Turoff wrote: > > 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. It is a promotional exercise. They get 10000 hackers brains making Netscape's browser the best in the world, and so corporations will naturally go to Netscape for web and proxy servers etc. What I like about this announcement is that it necessarily becomes legal to carry a Netscape mirror site (I hope!) Danny