Re: Debian FreeBSD

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:03:22PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> This is a very bad idea.
> 
> Why?  The BSD license.
> 
> We must not help software based on a BSD-licensed kernel no less
> become more prevelant.  The reason is that the BSD license allows
> companies to commercialize the product.  I for one disdain the idea of 
> using SPI resources to help things that will become proprietary.

I have a different emotional stance on that but it doesn't matter.

DFSG doesn't discriminate between compliant licenses and BSD license is
certainly DFSG-compliant. 


Thanks,

Alex Y.
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