From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 10 11:55:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF98D15D79 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04177; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:54:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) id NAA12482; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:54:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990910135455.60884@right.PCS> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:54:55 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Market share and platform support References: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909220642.04737670@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sep 09, 1999 at 10:31:09PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message