Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:29:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222162914.GB16833@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On 2002-12-22 03:48, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: > | On another note, the only reason Linux is getting commerical interest is > | because people don't know about FreeBSD, they also don't know about the > | goods of the BSD license, if corporations were made aware of how the BSD > | license can be used, I gaurntee you we would have more people jumping on the > | band wagon for FreeBSD development and such. I just don't think BSD in > | general gets enough publicity. > > I recently read that the new Mandrake licensing plans for commercial will > allow modification of the source without requiring they be released. The > article remarks how much that is like the BSD license. This sounds pretty impossible to do with GPL code. Where did you read that? Unless seen in more context, "modification of the source without requiring they be released" sounds something very hard to do for Linux and its GPL parts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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