From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 10 15:57:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.theinternet.com.au (zeus.theinternet.com.au [203.34.176.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5975945ED for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mail.theinternet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA60668; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:49:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <200002102349.JAA60668@mail.theinternet.com.au> Subject: Re: Eclipse/BSD In-Reply-To: <20000210155149.C478@hades.hell.gr> from Giorgos Keramidas at "Feb 10, 2000 03:51:49 pm" To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:49:11 +1000 (EST) Cc: Colin , Joe Abley , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +----[ Giorgos Keramidas ]--------------------------------------------- | On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 08:56:09PM -0500, Colin wrote: | > | > As interesting as this looks, unfortunately the license it comes with | > efffectively precludes incorporating it into FreeBSD. The license is | > for single-user non-commercial only. They also included derivative | > works in the restrictions. | | So much for Stallman's efforts to be the meanest man on earth when it | comes to "derivatives". They sure have beat him here :/ I don't think that that is an entirely fair analysis. They are afterall a business, and business units need to justify their existence. If it goes the normal way Lucent goes, Eclipse as a unit (license, staff etc) will be sold off to the highest bidder at some point down the track. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | ACN: 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-hackers" in the body of the message