From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 16:01:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16373 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16273; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA04729; Mon, 4 May 1998 08:30:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980504083034.A356@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 08:30:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Lemon , Nicole Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley References: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> <19980503172238.09469@right.PCS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980503172238.09469@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 05:22:38PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 3 May 1998 at 17:22:38 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On May 05, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700, Nicole wrote: >> >> I have heard one good argument against the FreeBSD liscense altho I >> don't know how true it is.. >> >> Their agument was that the license would allow someone (like M$) to >> take Freebsd and add some propritary stuff to it (like Front page >> extensions, active X etc) and sell it without having to give anything >> back to the FreeBSD group or even state that it was FreeBSD. >> >> Any comments? > > That's not a bug, it's a feature. :-) In fact, the BSD license *does* require acknowledgement of the sources. Read it again. And yes, Microsoft has done this already, at least indirectly. Do you think they wrote all of their TCP/IP code? On the other hand, compare what they made of it to the original and you'll see why there's no particular reason for concern. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message