From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 22 16:28:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from theinternet.com.au (co3040619-a.kelvn1.qld.optushome.com.au [203.164.207.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C851E37B449 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:27:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@theinternet.com.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by theinternet.com.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7MNPIo55198; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:25:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:25:18 +1000 From: Andrew Kenneth Milton To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Nate Williams , "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , Andrew Kenneth Milton , Brian Somers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <20010823092518.N21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <200108202249.f7KMnjU93566@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010821091441.F21855@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <006e01c12a43$48f9cb30$3028680a@tgt.com> <20010821114020.T313@blossom.cjclark.org> <20010821231841.B96292@hades.hell.gr> <20010821153116.Z313@blossom.cjclark.org> <15234.58543.854779.892964@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010821162913.B313@blossom.cjclark.org> <20010823014158.B4824@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20010823014158.B4824@hades.hell.gr>; from Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:41:59AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +-------[ Giorgos Keramidas ]---------------------- | | Yep. True. The only problem is that if Charles Mott makes changes at | a later date to his codebase, changes cannot be merged to the FreeBSD | version without permission from him, even if the patches apply cleanly | and break nothing that FreeBSD uses. This is true of any software. Just because one version is BSDL doesn't mean future versions will be. He's the author he can release under whatever license he wants to (and more power to him). -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message