Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:42:37 -0500 From: Mike Hauber <mchauber@gmx.net> To: "FreeBSD, Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: BSD folks position on GPL, Novell, IBM, SCO, and MS... Message-ID: <200611250942.38410.mchauber@gmx.net>
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This question was originally posted to the questions list, and I was referr= ed=20 here: I am by no means trolling here. =C2=A0I just haven't heard much of anything= from=20 the BSD community on the subjects, and would like to know the general=20 consensus. =C2=A0If advocacy is not the place for questions like this, coul= d=20 someone re-direct me to an appropriate list or reference, or sending me an= =20 email directly is fine, too. I have been an avid user of the BSDs (mostly FreeBSD and OpenBSD), and have= =20 experimented with the Linuses for a good while now (Mainly Debian, RH, and= =20 SuSe). =C2=A0I pretty much get it that the BSD folks and the Linux folks do= n't=20 completely see eye-to-eye on licensing issues, but it seems to me that the= =20 overall attempt of both communities seems to be "get the code out there and= =20 keep it free." (I was corrected on this point by a FBSD-questions member stating essential= ly=20 that the GPLs function is perpetuality where the BSD license is simply to=20 "release it free," if I understood that correctly) I was just wondering what the general consensus was on the GPL, Linux in=20 general, SCOs lawsuit, Sun's open sourcing, IBMs contributions to Linux,=20 Novell's contributions, Novell's deal with MS and how this really affects=20 SuSe (there's a lot of hype on that and I literally don't know what to=20 believe at this point). Being that most folks here would be in positions of having to deal with a=20 variety of OSs and have in the past dealt with opposing forces at work, I=20 figured there would be at least one or two educated folks I could glean fro= m. I'm an avid reader of GrokLaw and LamLaw, as well as other (not so thorough= =20 sources), but still haven't really heard anything as far as the stance from= =20 the BSD side of the OS community. Thanks, and sorry for the imposition, Mike PS... =C2=A0One more question... =C2=A0Being that Linux emulation is availa= ble as a port=20 for the BSDs, I would assume (but haven't taken the time to research) that= =20 GPLd code is used. =C2=A0If there comes to be issues with Linux, what would= that=20 mean for BSDs compatibility in regards to emulation?
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