From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 6 17:36:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B299137B401 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f570Y4N14547; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:34:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: Subject: Re: IPFilter licence update In-Reply-To: <003801c0ecf7$0d0236a0$3028680a@tgt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I removed Darren from the CC list as I don't think he really needs to be in on this discussion.... On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > While meaning no disrespect to Darren with this followup. What good does a > signed memorandum with FreeBSD do if I decide at some point (which I won't) > to take the FreeBSD source and branch it into my own variant? This is how > the various BSDs came about in the first place. It does seem rather > restrictive of a license for the FreeBSD core system. Why can't this be > released under the BSD license? It's not released under a BSD license because he doesn't want to. His perogative. We have some much more restrictive licenses (ie GPL) in the base OS and no one complains about them. There, that's all I have to say about the topic. I'll go back to lurking. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message