From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 7 6:13:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C535114FBC for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 06:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA17543; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:13:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) In-Reply-To: <3875F2CC.6A771456@math.udel.edu> from Peter Schwenk at "Jan 7, 2000 9: 6: 4 am" To: schwenk@math.udel.edu (Peter Schwenk) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:13:00 -0500 (EST) Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From a business standpoint, yes, the BSDL is delightful. "Here, have this, it's free, do whatever you want with it." What business wouldn't like that? But what do *we* get out of it? Simply the satisfaction of knowing your work is in a photocopier's brain? ==ml > It appears to me, at least from a business standpoint, that the BSDL is the > free-est of all in that all it requires of the licensee is recognition of the > source of the work. I think that's why Apple's used it for it's upcoming Mac OS > X. They can use the FreeBSD source and still not be required to ship source with > their product. That way they can keep whatever fancy stuff they've done to it > private and keep a competitive advantage. Not very cool from a GPL, Open Source > standpoint, but I'm sure Apple likes it. I thought I heard a rumor that Apple has > contributed some source back to the FreeBSD project, but that's just hearsay. > > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > So, is there any highfalutin' purpose behind the BSDL? Or is it as > > nonpolitical as it appears to be? Having had this argument many > > times, I'd like something better than "we don't care"; from an > > advocacy point of view, that never comes across well. > > -- > PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator > Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware > schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message