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Date:      Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:54:55 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Market share and platform support
Message-ID:  <19990910135455.60884@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sep 09, 1999 at 10:31:09PM -0600
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On Sep 09, 1999 at 10:31:09PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 10:42 AM 9/9/99 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> 
>  >Let's _NOT_ suppose that.  It's just plain stupid.  You seem to forget
> >that Jordan is not the sole custodian of FreeBSD.  Such a license would
> >absolutely never be able to enter the CVS tree, the global committer 
> >community would never allow it.
> 
> It wouldn't have to allow it. All WC would need to do is assert its legal
> right to its employees' work, and it would own code in the tree. And
> could license it however it wanted.

And the code would then be ripped out and re-implemented by the community
at large.  As has happened in the past, as well.
--
Jonathan


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