On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Douglas Brebnersqueaklists@fang.demon.co.uk wrote:
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> "Miguel" == Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez miguel.coba@gmail.com writes: >
Miguel> I don't know of any organization backing with lawyers the Miguel> FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD (MIT/BSD license) effort and of course that has Miguel> not avoid using this OSes in real organizations and for mission Miguel> critical operations.
The licenses of those projects has not changed, ever.
Squeak has a very different situation, taking a product from private to semi-public to public source, with a lot of contributors putting code in during the "grey area" times.
Actually, wasn't NetBSD bitten by the USL v BSDI & University of California lawsuit which was over licencing of the commercial Unix code that the early BSD code was based on? I'm pretty sure I remember them not being able to make their CVS repo public in the early days because it contained commercially licenced code from the original Unix.
But what about being more practical and take the Linux approach: use the code and, when and if ever, threatened or suited, remove the affected code and rewriting it in order to not infringe copyrights/patents.
Miguel Cobá