From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 06:32:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC3216A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:32:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FA343D58 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:32:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) i9Q6W4q78071; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Dennis Koegel" , "Philipp Huber" Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:32:04 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20041025082051.GB16445@neveragain.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 cc: Graham Bentley cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: GPL vs BSD Licence X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:32:16 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dennis Koegel > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:21 AM > To: Philipp Huber > > Because Juniper, for example, are perfectly free to decide against > making their changes to the (in this case) FreeBSD code available > anyone at all. You do realize, don't you, that the interesting part of a Juniper is the microcode in their DSP routing engine. FreeBSD is only used to control the routing engine in a Juniper router, it isn't used AS the routing engine. I really doubt that anything Juniper has done to FreeBSD would be of much interest to anyone other than Cisco Systems, and Cisco would only be interested in it as a way of finding out weaknesses in Juniper routers that they could market against. Actually a more interesting example is some of the Linksys routers do indeed use an embedded Linux along with Zebra as the routing engine. Ted