From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 14:20: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B97814DBB for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA29944; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA19389; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:19:13 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA00423; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:19:06 -0700 Message-ID: <36DC63EB.3A4AE7E6@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:19:23 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No licensing restrictions?" References: <4.1.19990302135100.00a0f680@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass wrote: > > The chart at > > http://www.cdrom.com/~rab/bsd_chart.html > > says, in the bottom box in the middle column, that Linux has "no licensing > restrictions." This is not so. The GPL severely restricts commercial reuse > of the code and prevents the addition of customized features by value-added > resellers unless they give away their work (and, hence, their unique advantage). > This should be mentioned here. I believe Linux *does* have SCO binary emulation capability, too. The chart should reflect this. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message