Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 21:00:28 -0800 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Whistle Claims and Copyrights Message-ID: <19981025210028.A21162@best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252043200.5693-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 08:50:57PM -0800 References: <19981025202200.B14664@best.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810252043200.5693-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 08:50:57PM -0800, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > >On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:09:18PM -0800, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >> http://www.whistle.com/products/prod-basicfaq.html#bsd > >> > >> They use BSD instead of free software? Gag!! I guess they are afraid to > >> "come out of the closet." > >> > >> To be fair, they do meet the requirements of the Board of Regents > >> copyright terms. > > > Ahh.. C'mon. Whistle has done SO MUCH for FreeBSD community it is > > simply not fair to blame them of something as small as this. > > No, no ,no. Oh dear. It was not my intent to "blame" them for anything. > Hence the comment, "To be fair, they meet the license." They do. I did > point out what I feel is a bit inconsistent. "BSD instead of free > software" is inconsistent. It should have gone to someone @whistle.com then instead of public list, especially one like this. Most of stuff started on advocacy ends up in an argument. :) > > I was mostly trying to raise the issue of FreeBSD writing itself into the > copyright. This I claimed was "wholly appropriate" as FreeBSD has put it's > own code into the source tree. Bring this up with Jordan when he comes back to US. > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering No you won't. I run faster. *grin* > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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