Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:33:37 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Daniel Jennings <djennings84@bigpond.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Open source quiry Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEGNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080227072638.GA2848@kobe.laptop>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Giorgos > Keramidas > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:27 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Daniel Jennings; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Open source quiry > > > On 2008-02-26 22:53, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>On 2008-02-26 11:33, Daniel Jennings <djennings84@bigpond.com> wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> Recently I was told that 2wire dsl gateways http://www.2wire.com use > >>> a variant of rt FreeBSD. > >> > >> The FreeBSD license allows reuse of the source code. In fact, this > >> is one of the stated goals of the project. `To provide a modern UNIX > >> system, with no strings attached.' > >> > >> > If this is true are they required to make the source code available > >> > to the public? And if so how does one go about getting the GPL > >> > source > >> > >> Not necessarily. Depending on how meticulous they have been in their > >> efforts to properly compartmentalize their own stuff, the BSD license > >> allows commercial reuse of the source code. > > > > The BSD license allows commercial reuse of the code with no > > requirement to disclose modifications, and no requirement to > > "compartmentalize" > > > > The GPL license is what your probably thinking on the > > "compartmentalize" thing, and the GPL zealots modify the GPL on a > > regular basis to make whatever "compartmentalization" schemes that > > people work out, impossible. > > > > Pretty soon the GPL will be claiming that programs that exec() GPL > > programs are required to be licensed under GPL!!!! > > Hi Ted :) > > That's stretching it a bit, but I know where the you are coming from. > > There's a very good way of removing the limits this sort of thing can > make possible: `Develop BSD code'. I'm sure you know that, so this is > more for the random thread reader. The best way to improve BSD is not > to `fight' the GPL but to embrace the BDSL and, well, sit down and write > something that extends and improves BSD :) > But, BSD is already so far ahead of GNU/Linux that I wouldn't want the GPL folk to get too discouraged... Ted
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