Re: [HACKERS] Re: Revised Copyright: is this more palatable?

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Personally, from all the 'legal' issues that FreeBSD has gone through over
> the years, especially recently with the BSDi/FreeBSD merger and the whole
> cryptology merger, I would think they would have been the first to
> adopt/change their BSD license to something else, and I've never even seen
> discussions on it ...

The only thing that comes close are the periodic discussions (ignored by
FBSD developers) about the removal of the 'offensive' mascot.  ;-)

Top Ten Gratuitous Discussions:

1.  FreeBSD v. Linux
2.  GPL v. BSD licence
3.  Removal of 'Chuckie' (Berkeley Daemon) from BSD
    in favour of something less 'Satanic' or 'Demonic'
4.  (Official) renaming of 'Chuckie' so as not offend McKusick
    over the popular (mis)perception that the Berkeley Daemon
    is (nick)named 'Chuckie'
5.  MySQL v. Postgres
6.  RedHat v. Debian v. SuSe
7.  Why was Slackware not involved in the above discussion
8.  Perl v. Python
9.  Coke v. Pepsi

lastly:

10. Altering the PG licence...I agree with *my perception* of Scrappy's
    position:  If FBSD get nervous and changes their licence, Pg should
    follow suit.  Otherwise it seems counterproductive.

Anyway, thanks for the great code.  I promise not to abuse it.
I promise not to sue anyone if I am too damn stupid to use it properly.

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