From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 19:07:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAF91065676 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 19:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netchild@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573258FC19 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 19:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (pD9E2FC92.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.252.146]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC62484419C; Sat, 29 May 2010 20:48:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.2.110]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF6B5C4A; Sat, 29 May 2010 20:48:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:48:35 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "C. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bergstr=F6m?=" Message-ID: <20100529204835.0000028d@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C013E24.6020204@pathscale.com> References: <4C0108F1.5050004@pathscale.com> <20100529160155.GA3519@anja> <4C013E24.6020204@pathscale.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs15 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: EC62484419C.AA1EF X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00) X-EBL-MailScanner-From: netchild@freebsd.org X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1275763721.34515@Y4H36/0c3eBlJUt6GD65IQ X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: Announcing PathDB X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 19:07:52 -0000 On Sat, 29 May 2010 23:17:40 +0700 "C. Bergstr=F6m" wrote: > Thordur I Bjornsson wrote: > >> PathScale is slowly open sourcing and porting some of our core > >> software technology and thought the BSD community might be > >> interested in PathDB. Months ago we gave a few FBSD developers You may want to introduce what it is (people which read careful enough may assume it is a debugger) and explain why it is better than the competition. > Can someone in the FreeBSD community please talk with this guy. If=20 > you're going to send a snotty email at least be brave enough to do it=20 > publicly.. He is for sure not one of the FreeBSD committers. Maybe a troll, so it may be better to just ignore him. > fwiw.. I never said free anywhere in my email.. It's assumed testing=20 > has a reciprocal benefit assuming we fix bugs. I've spoken with 5-10=20 > people in the BSD community and most are supportive of our idea.. > They of course wanted the BSD license from the start, but to me this > is a conservative approach which I saw as a win/win.. So honestly am > I on crack? I don't think your offer to relicense is bad, I just think your introduction of it could have been a little bit more verbose (tell the people something to make them want to have a look at it). Bye, Alexander.