From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 20 17:38:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AF637B401 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA62256; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 02:38:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Peter Cc: bright@sneakerz.org, "Jordan Hubbard" , "jeroen@unfix.org" , "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Jun 2001 02:38:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter writes: > GPL is great for simple things, that don't create any standard, but > work upon one. But as even RMS [I think it was RMS] agreed, BSD > license is much better for 'standards'. -- ie the oog format was BSD > licensed and the GPL people endorsed it because this would allow oog > to grow, as now corps can [try to] make money off a format in their > proprietary devices, unlike if oog was GPLed, it would die as no one > would support it except for the linux folks. Beware. Richard Stallman also advocates changing to more restrictive licenses once the software (in general, not ogg in particular) has gather sufficient momentum. He wrote a diatribe a year or two back where he argued that the time had come to switch glibc (IIRC) from LPGL to GPL so that all the commercial software vendors who had become dependent on Linux would be forced to GPL their software or fold. Talk about bait-and-switch! It's for this reason, by the way, that the LGPL has been renamed from "Library GPL" to "Lesser GPL". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message