From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 20 12:35:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8254137B406 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01600; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:34:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010620133149.04876ca0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:34:16 -0600 To: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: interesting licensing quote (GPL) In-Reply-To: <20010620151210.A99772@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 08:12 AM 6/20/2001, j mckitrick wrote: > This article made me think about my own opinions of the BSD and GPL >licenses. I think I tend to come across as a bit of a GPL zealot, but I >can see how in some cases, BSD is a better choice. If the BSD sockets code >had been under the GPL, Microsoft wouldn't have used it, and likely as not they >would have developed a completely incompatible TCP/IP programming interface. >As it is, sockets have become something of a standard, and Unix and Windows >programmers can understand and modify each other's TCP/IP code >without too much trouble. So in this case, the BSD code has won a victory >for interoperability. And for standardization. The GPL discourages standardization by driving a wedge between commercial developers and developers of GPLed software. They must work from different code bases. And since even EXAMINING the GPLed code could make a commercial developer subject to accusation that he's created a derivative work, analyzing the two to see WHY they're not compatible is not feasible. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message