Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:48:32 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: rab@pike.cdrom.com, brett@lariat.org, Dave@Yost.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Message-ID: <36DDF480.A58C372A@newsguy.com> References: <199903011927.MAA15288@usr09.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Controversial to whom? It is just a matter of your intended > > audience, of how you sell this. "In contrast to the GPL license used > > by Linux, FreeBSD gives preference to the BSD license, meaning that > > business enterprises can use the source code as it sees fit with no > > strings attached, besides the copyright notice." > > To make this argument, you need to make the semantic distinction > between "use" and "utilize". You are free to utilize Linux, but > not use Linux source code to prepare proprietary derivative works. This is stuff to feed the masses. I claim we can get fuzzy here, because the press would do that anyway. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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