From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 11:10:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ims1.imagestream.com (ims1.imagestream.com [205.159.243.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5837B405; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dhass@localhost) by ims1.imagestream.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA11287; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:10:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:10:23 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Hass To: void Cc: Mike Smith , Ted Mittelstaedt , Leo Bicknell , Jim Bryant , MurrayTaylor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI In-Reply-To: <20011017190720.C21886@parhelion.firedrake.org> Message-ID: 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 If you didn't say it, then you weren't the one I was talking about, was I? :-) I got several other private mails saying that BSD licensed code was the one and only way, and 2 or 3 mails (from Ben, among others) saying that BSD-licensed was preferred. Either approach is as flawed as someone who claims GPL only or GPL preferred. The license terms of add-on drivers and products should be set according to the needs of the authoring person or company, in my opinion. Doug On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, void wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:19:34PM -0500, Doug Hass wrote: > > > > I'm glad someone else is speaking up--all I've heard is Ted's point of > > view (from him, and from others who have said the same thing: FreeBSD only > > accepts BSD licensed code, period.) > > I said to you in private mail that where there's a BSD-licensed solution > and a non-BSD-licensed solution, all else being roughly equal, FreeBSD > tends towards the BSD-licensed solution. Not the same thing at all. > > -- > Ben > > "An art scene of delight > I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message