From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 22 20:31:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25456 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 20:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25429; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 20:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11541; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:12:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199801230412.XAA11541@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Mike Shaver: Netscape gives away source code for Communicator In-Reply-To: <34c82454.17691507@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Jan 23, 98 05:06:07 am" To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:12:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: imp@village.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Kelly said: > On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 20:40:48 -0700, Warner Losh > wrote: > > >The press release said GPL. > > This is an interesting case of BSD vs. GPL. > > If Netscape used a BSD type license, Microsoft could take it and add > improvements and hide the improvements. With GPL, they can still take > it, but can't hide the improvements. At least not without getting > sued by Netscape. > > So GPL is better for Netscape. > I agree, in this case a GPLed Netscape is better for everyone. Since it is a complete work, and not likely to taint other software, it is probably not bad to use GPL. I would suggest specific relief from GPL regarding programming interface specs though. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.