From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 1 10: 7:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BECD37B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA81157; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:07:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Dennis Jun" Cc: Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL References: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 01 Mar 2001 19:07:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Dennis Jun"'s message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:32:53 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Dennis Jun" writes: > A Linux friend of mine and I were chatting bout the BSD licence versus the > GPL. He was asking me how *BSD developers felt about that their code could > (and has) being used by commercial companies and in turn becomes closed in > the end. That is, you don't know if your code will stay open or not. He > asked doesn't that bother BSD developers? [replying a little late] I don't care, as long as they don't try to pass it off as their own. And even if I used the GPL instead of the BSDL, there'd be nothing to stop people from using my code in proprietary software. I'd never find out (unless one of their employees blew the whistle). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message