Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:53:45 EDT From: "Tom Hines" <tomhines2@hotmail.com> To: djohnson@acuson.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Advocacy... Message-ID: <20000612195345.45021.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>What's the best way to counter the continual FUD that the GPL protects >software better than the BSD license? You can't counter it because it's true. The GPL has an important restriction that BSD doesn't -- it requires all modifications to the code that are redistributed are done so under the same license. That protects the software. I don't know if the GPL is the reason that companies are jumping on the Linux bandwagon or not, but I can see why it might be more attractive to a company offering support services, or to a company that just wants to make a contribution without fear of it getting hijacked, like SGI with XFS (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/license.html). Why do you think that's FUD? On the other hand, I see no reason why FreeBSD can't get a bandwagon going, and with the merger of BSDI and Walnut Creek, I hope that happens. <ducking and covering> Tom H. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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