Draft 1 of the OpenDesk.com Public Source License

Brian Behlendorf brian at collab.net
Thu Nov 18 18:38:38 UTC 1999


On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:47:14PM -0800, Arandir wrote:
> 
> > Whether a project forks or not seems to be determined by factors very distant
> > from the specific licenses.
> 
> OTOH, the prototypical massively forked project is BSD, with dozens of 
> forked proprietary Unix's based off it.

Sure.  And the amount of code sharing between NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD
is *much* greater, as best I can tell, than the code sharing between the
various Linux distributions.

	Brian






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