Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:11:31 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <8a0028260608311311v224ee5baud24fcca650cdb892@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200608311538.46509.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831183956.GA43568@elvis.mu.org> <8a0028260608311147n4cd9563hf816d2993edc2f17@mail.gmail.com> <200608311538.46509.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 31/08/06, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 14:47, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > On 31/08/06, Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > Jeff Rollin (jeff.rollin@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > If Yahoo (to pick the one big vendor I remember making a big thing > of > > > using > > > > a BSD) don't reincorporate their changes, perhaps that's because the > > > license > > > > allows them not to? > > > > > > If you think that Yahoo! has not given back to the FreeBSD project, > > > then you are sorely mistaken. Let me count the ways that Yahoo! > > > has given back. > > > > > > As I said, Yahoo are the one big company I remember being cited as using > a > > BSD. My point was not that "Yahoo does not give back to the FreeBSD > > project," but that the BSD licence *allows* them not to give back in a > way > > that the GPL does not allow (say) Google not to give back to the Linux > > project(s). > > That's not true. If Google makes an enhancement to Linux that they only > distribute internally, they are only required to make the source code > available internally. You only have to give your patches to the folks > you distribute the resulting binaries to. I'm perfectly well aware of that too. Thus, if you merely make appliances > that manage/produce content and sell the content but not the appliances, > you > can mix propietary code with the GPL to your heart's content. But really, > the economics of open source is actually more complicated than the GPL > folks > understand. I think the GPL folks understand the economics of open source a lot better than the anti-GPL folks give them credit for. Jeff.
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