Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 11:50:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coda license term changes ... GPL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990110114910.4519A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901101942.LAA86650@apollo.backplane.com>
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Just think, we never would have seen an Ultrix LAT implementation if 4BSD had been GPL-ed :) On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: [...] > 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. [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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