From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 20 13:15: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h011.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E37D37B403 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobolak@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 7750 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2001 13:02:04 -0700 Received: from dsl-64-130-72-57.telocity.com (HELO ELVIS.swh.SynergyBiz.com) (64.130.72.57) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.217) with SMTP; 20 Jun 2001 13:02:04 -0700 X-Sent: 20 Jun 2001 20:02:04 GMT Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:01:57 -0700 From: Brian Sobolak X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Personal Reply-To: Telocity X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <11224273904.20010620130157@telocity.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: public domain vs. copyright, license, disclaimer In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello Jeremy, Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 12:32:45 PM, you wrote: JCR> I am interested in hearing opinions, ideas and references on why using a JCR> BSD-type license is better (or not better) than simply releasing code as JCR> "public domain". You can read Brian Behlendorf's thought on the matter in _Open Sources_, which you can find here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html His essay doesn't include a discussion of public domain, just a brief mention of why they chose a BSD-type license for Apache. I seem to recall someone else talking about public domain code in that book, but I don't remember who. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message