From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Dec 22 13: 0:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08F937B49C for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCA843EE5 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:00:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18QDD3-000IO8-00; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:00:29 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gBML0SPe041414; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:00:28 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBML0RUm041413; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:00:27 GMT Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:00:27 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222210027.GA41373@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021222162914.GB16833@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222162914.GB16833@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18QDD3-000IO8-00*3GVm8cuAeoA* Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 06:29:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | On 2002-12-22 03:48, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: | > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: | > | On another note, the only reason Linux is getting commerical interest is | > | because people don't know about FreeBSD, they also don't know about the | > | goods of the BSD license, if corporations were made aware of how the BSD | > | license can be used, I gaurntee you we would have more people jumping on the | > | band wagon for FreeBSD development and such. I just don't think BSD in | > | general gets enough publicity. | > | > I recently read that the new Mandrake licensing plans for commercial will | > allow modification of the source without requiring they be released. The | > article remarks how much that is like the BSD license. | | This sounds pretty impossible to do with GPL code. Where did you | read that? Unless seen in more context, "modification of the source | without requiring they be released" sounds something very hard to do | for Linux and its GPL parts. It's not the Linux code they are talking about. There is a multi-network firewall that they include. For commercial, you can buy licenses and support, and also get the source code to MNF, IIUC. Linux stays GPL. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message