On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Douglas
Brebner<squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>> "Miguel" == Miguel Enrique Cobá Martinez <miguel.coba at 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