Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 08:33:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <19980504083310.B356@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980504004828.35746@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 12:48:28AM %2B0200 References: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> <XFMail.980503144012.freelist@webweaver.net> <19980504004828.35746@follo.net>
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On Mon, 4 May 1998 at 0:48:28 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700, Nicole wrote: >> >> On 03-May-98 Brett Glass wisely wrote: >>> I'm not mentioning FreeBSD explicitly in my messages, but I *am* advocating >>> the Berkeley-style license. The angry zealots who respond to me, however, >>> are trashing FreeBSD and the *BSDs in general. >>> >>> I agree that one can rarely "win" these arguments, but one can raise the >>> awareness >>> level of the lurkers (of which there are many) that there's an alternative >>> point of view. That's where the benefit comes in. >>> >>> --Brett >> >> >> 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. > > They don't have to explictly state that it is FreeBSD, but there are a > LOT of credits they _do_ have to state. Read through the source > sometime. > > One example: They have to credit the University of California at > Berkeley, even in their advertisements. This example is in > /usr/src/COPYRIGHT. Right. When did you last see this mentioned *anywhere* in System V.4? You can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft wouldn't be any better. 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
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