From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 11:43:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04545 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:43:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04540 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:43:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA86650; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:42:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901101942.LAA86650@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Julian Elischer , "Robert V. Baron" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coda license term changes ... GPL References: Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk :Julian Elischer writes: :> On 8 Jan 1999, Robert V. Baron wrote: :> > - Coda is now GPL'd - primarily because we want to indicate that we are :> > really an OSS project. :> OSS != GPL.. what about PERL? : :Linux advocates will have the public believe that the BSD license is :meant to trick people into donating software which you then make :proprietary and sell for big bucks. Therefore, in the eyes of all too :many people, OSS == GPL. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no Oh, I don't think it's that bad. The press I've seen has treated BSD/GPL OSS issues quite fairly. Whenever anyone asks me why I like BSD over GPL I always say "Because I *want* other people to be able to make money from my OSS work". And on the unreasoning fear that someone would 'take over' a BSDized project, I point out the resource requirements that make it unlikely. Even commercial companies would find it difficult and expensive to permanently split off their own branch - R&D is always expensive. Customize? Of course! Permanent split? Unlikely. Proprietization arguments go the same route - a company that 'steals' BSDized code in order to proprietize it has a greater chance of being forced into using an open standard then it has in being able to force a proprietized version unto others. Sometimes it pays to not be paranoid. For commercial companies, the bottom line is the great equalizer. -Matt Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications & God knows what else. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message