Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 07:51:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: gena@NetVision.net.il, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: GPL code in freebsd? Message-ID: <199506171151.HAA12011@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199506170828.BAA06765@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 17, 95 01:28:34 am
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > > > > Sorry for the stupid question: > > Linux uses GPL without any problems (or it seems so :-) > > why we can't? > > Have you ever read the GPL? Do you understand what it says? Do you > like 5 page licenses with all sorts of legaleize in them that even > drives a lawyer nuts? > > Sorry, just can't stand bloody restictions like that, even my lawyer > shreeks when he reads it! > > UCB copyright, nice, sort, understandable, and only 4 conditions! I agree with this SO MUCH I'll SHOUT. We work with small and medium size companies. We embed chunks of BSD kernel in their products, some of which have no OS at all. This means presenting the licencing terms to the management, and the management presenting them to the legal department or outside lawyer during the project negotiation phase. We take intellectual property rights seriously, and usually have to negotiate changes in the company boiler plate legal agreements. We have enough trouble with that. I assure you that trying to get the GPL understood by those people, and then approved, would be a problem for us. Before engaging in any discussions of GPL versus BSD everyone should sit down and read the GPL, and when in the discussion try to see the environment that the other individual is coming from. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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