Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:15:30 +0600 From: "Sergey N. Voronkov" <serg@tmn.ru> To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010621171530.A490@sv.tech.sibitex.tmn.ru> In-Reply-To: <3B31CB11.C56D452C@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:23:13PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106201952100.87138-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> <3B31CB11.C56D452C@i-clue.de>
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:23:13PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > Just for the record: Microsoft sells GPL'ed tools. See > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/default.asp > > The feature list starts with > KornShell, C Shell and Bourne Shell with full job control > Over 300 utilities, including scripting tools such as awk, sed, > perl, Tcl/Tk > Berkeley Software Design (BSD) sockets mapped to > Winsock > First at all, if the source is GPLed then it is Open Source. But Open Source isn't GPL always! (See /COPYRIGHT on FreeBSD as an example). Second one - sources of the GPLed utilities are available from Microsoft (see the bottom of the referenced page). So GPL terms of use aren't broken. So, if you don't like Microsoft (as I'm), be free to use any other software, but do not say they breaks any restricted licenses when they aren't. Just my $0.02, Serg N. Voronkov. P.S.: Excuse me for my english... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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