BSD License????

[Jimen Ching]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>No, you have to worry about all the various open-source licenses (and
>there are a whole bunch of them), only when you are interested in
>building a commercial entity to re-distribute their code.  Steve Ballmer
>is spreading FUD about open-source licenses, particularly GPL; and it
>appears to be working even among those like yourself whom I consider
>experts in the open-source community.

I have no idea what you are disagreeing with.  There is nothing I said
in my previous email that contradicts what you responded here.

>There are two key elements in GPL and Free/Open BSD: a copyright notice
>and a bold-typed disclaimer of warranty that will free all contributors
>from any potential liability.  (You can provide your own warrenty with
>whatever terms and charge whatever price your buyer is willing to pay.)
> With GPL'ed code, of course, if you re-distribute the code you also
>have to "offer to provide the source code" at cost.  As we all know,
>most GUN's libraries are under LGPL, and as such, you can include their
>binaries without providing your source code.

My previous response below was a general response.  The LGPL is a license,
thus, what I said still apply.  I think you missed my points.

--jc

>Jimen Ching wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>>
>>>This discussion also brings out an interesting issue, that is, it appears to
>>>be more difficult to port an open-sourced program into Linux than to port a
>>>proprietary one.  With the latter, what you're doing is to reverse-engineer
>>>the functions of the code.  Whereas, with an open-sourced program, it will be
>>>very difficult to argue that you are not translating (a form of copying) the
>>>code to a different form, even though you may be rewriting the entire code.
>>>
>>
>>Yes, these issues are some of the things people are complaining about in
>>the free/open source software world.  Of course, these problems only arise
>>when you try to combine the source code.  Most projects I know are always
>>re-inventing the wheel anyway.  So these issues are kind of moot.  BSD has
>>their PF, Linux will get their own in time.  It is unfortunate that the
>>license is the major driver of these re-inventions.  But there are more
>>than enough engineers to do the work, so why worry?
>>
>>Even if there are no licenses to drive these duplicate efforts, someone
>>will always want to do it anyway.  Look at the number of editors and
>>browsers and Wordprocessors and desktop environments.
>>
>>--jc
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