From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 13:08:18 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! In-Reply-To: <20170917185701.GA31988@wopr> References: <20170914161121.sx7eqzsqklzcncdb@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170914193905.GD25914@wopr> <20170914213535.4ptpo7jtaem6x5tf@thunk.org> <20170916034032.GO3272@mcvoy.com> <201709161920.v8GJK0ec020998@freefriends.org> <20170917014349.GW3272@mcvoy.com> <201709170519.v8H5JpKx003398@freefriends.org> <20170917185701.GA31988@wopr> Message-ID: On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 02:49:16PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > > > > I remember multiple FSF efforts to solicit volunteers for named projects. > > There were lots of people willing to donate their time and effort. And > > at that time, there were very few non-FSF projects licensed under the > GPL, > > so the issue of "absorbtion" was minor to non-existent. > > But that time changed, and was replaced by a time where the FSF pushed > hard on copyright assignment to the FSF, and led to a time where we > wound up with GPL, GPL2, GPL3, AGPL, LGPL, ad infinitum, which landed us > in the present day, where half the tech organizations on earth are so > unwilling to step into the morass that BSD/MIT licenses are making a big > comeback. > FreeBSD started out life with lots of GNU/GPL software. After GPLv3 was released, the project made a conscious effort to move away from all GPL'd software in the tree. When FreeBSD 12 comes out next year, there's a really good chance all the GPL'd code will be gone from the tree. > They've spent so much time trying to 'fix' international patent law by > clubbing people with copyright licenses that the company behind the most > popular linux distribution is working on a BSD-licensed kernel. > Fun times, that.... > The history of UNIX and its ilk fascinates me, but only half of it is > technology. The other half of it is a bizarre forty-year-long license > war, which the partisans refuse to stop fighting, even after they win. > Yea... Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: