Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:27:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: open source license with 24 month proprietary clause Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306171217010.24959-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <3EB4D079.26872.32A7E84C@localhost>
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On Sun, 4 May 2003, Dan Langille wrote: > > I read a magazine article saying that the BSD license does this 24 month > > innovations claim. > > For the record, the BSD license does no such thing. (I know you know > that...). Yes. > > Time for a letter to the editor ... > > Details of the article please... "Users take open source databases for a spin." Network World, April 28. The article indicated that the BSD license offers developers and companies a "proprietary head start of 24 months for their innovations" and "a 24-month claim on whatever innovations that might create." The online version was fixed. I wrote a letter to the editor that quickly explained the BSD license and it was published in print about a month later. (The published letter was edited from the version I provided.[1]) Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ [1] I sure have bad luck with this! I have had many technical print articles sliced and diced. Sometimes, I have had sentences repeated -- "didn't I just read that?", unrelated sentences merged, and spellings changed, like "lyx" changed to "lynx" in the context of an WYSIWYM document processor.home | help
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