From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 15:50:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F26106566B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:50:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millenia2000@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc3-s22.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc3-s22.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.190.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B1E8FC0A for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:50:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BAY165-DS14 ([65.54.190.189]) by bay0-omc3-s22.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 08:49:44 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [174.252.123.40] X-EIP: [R0pViSbmzaPaeHJ+KgmKvercdAreNaoF] X-Originating-Email: [millenia2000@hotmail.com] Message-ID: From: Sean Cavanaugh To: "'Wojciech Puchar'" , "'Traiano Welcome'" References: In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:49:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: AQJ7bNVKRNDn7BAS6W0gb9ZxLG5Y2wJodVqpAsrINeKVv4TW8A== Content-Language: en-us X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2012 15:49:44.0281 (UTC) FILETIME=[453F7C90:01CD6FFD] Cc: 'jb' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:50:50 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:12 AM > To: Traiano Welcome > Cc: jb; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? > > > FUD. Ignore. They're going the same way as SCO. > > even if not it's just matter to add proper licence to right ports in port tree > and require user to accept it. > > > That already exists. Install java and it will have you manually download it so as to accept their license, or the Intel NIC drivers that have you add a license acknowledge line in loader.conf. FreeBSD as a whole is not encumbered. that was whole issue over the UNIX license issues way back when (which indirectly led Linus Torvalds to write Linux). Further releasing the burden has been seen with the replacement of GCC with CLANG to get the core OS to be as close to 100% BSD licensed.