brainstorming

[Benjamin Rossen]

Bjorn,

I have a copy of the BSD license here which I read before starting to use 
FreeBSD. I am currently preparing to set up a FreeBSD Web Server. 

If you read the whole thread you shall see that I was taking up the line given 
by someone else and added the aside "... if that is indeed where the BSD 
license takes you." I personally didn't believe it, but I am not an expert on 
the BSD license and did not want to get onto that side track. 

On the question of the TCP/IP stack... I know almost nothing about that, and 
do not presume to judge. I only know what has recently been told on this 
thread. I shall take your comment below to be my most recent reliable source 
of information on this as long as it is not contradicted. 

Thanks for the link. It was an interesting read. I have had a copy of "Open 
Source Free Software Licensing" from O'Reilly on my table here for a while, 
and I must get to reading it soon. 

Benjamin Rossen

On Saturday 15 January 2005 16:12, you wrote:
> Benjamin,
> 
> You seem to have some misconceptions about the "BSD side" of the Open
> Source community. I would like to suggest that you read the following
> article:
> 
>    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2001/12/12/transition.html
> 
> PS: Microsoft replaced the BSD TCP/IP stack many years ago; not because
> of licensing issues, but because they needed to make substantial changes
> anyways, so they re-designed and re-wrote it from scratch.
>