From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 25 11:34: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD6A37B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1784"@[136.142.89.21]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K3ZG0M03PA013P3T@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 25 May 2001 14:33:03 EDT Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:39:54 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: BSD license getting more attention lately. To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B0EA6FA.6B80F5BB@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: <20010524122010.C52234@lpt.ens.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I definitely think there is something going on out there...envy in the Linux camp perhaps?? Alan Cox talking about binary modules in Linux:* "... If you are releasing modules with source under terms that are at least as free as the GPL (eg BSD without advertising clause) then nobody has any cares. We probably wouldnt merge it with the mainstream kernel due to the lack of patent trap protection in the BSD license but I suspect you dont want that anyway." *taken from the Linux Kernel Traffic This is becoming funny. In my interpretation, Linux (excuse the redundancy) kernel developers are now discouraging the BSD license. Now they are even spreading FUD in terms of that "lack of patent trap protection". I wonder how their modified GPL protects them from patents, not to mention the one in RTlinux. I think there's something deeper here...they are starting to feel pressure from somewhere...maybe Microsoft's comments?? maybe they are loosing industry interest. ah well; maybe we should let them think whatever they want :). Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message