Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

From: Wilko Bulte <wb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:20:15 +0100
Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp, who wrote on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:18:12AM +0000 ..
> In message <47873174.4040802_at_gmail.com>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" writes:
> 
> >> Ny scheme that depends on us changing the license is a non-starter
> >> for both practical (we'd need to get everybodys acceptance of that,
> >>  and piss of a large number of users who have cleared the BSD
> >> license with their laywers) and ideological (we don't want to
> >> create uncertainty about the well known and deeply established BSD
> >> license).
> >>
> >>
> >The revision I am suggesting [...]
> 
> It does not matter.  The BSD license will not be changed for the
> reasons I stated.
> 
> It ain't gonna happen.
> 
> All you're doing now is hurting your case by annoyingly keeping barking
> up the wrong tree.

Worse, it is hurting FreeBSD because it burns committer cycles that better 
be spent on doing something sensible instead of arguing about a license
change that will never happen.

Wilko

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Wilko Bulte				wilko_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Fri Jan 11 2008 - 08:20:19 UTC

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