Subject: Re: Sleepycat Software DB 2.x library licensing vs. NetBSD
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: None <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 09/19/1998 00:22:12
In message <m0zKETX-0009MEC@most.weird.com>, Greg A. Woods writes:
>However I think it's a totally bogus desire.  Anyone building a
>commercial and/or proprietary system, and hoping to get the base OS
>totally without cost is either greedy or raping NetBSD contributors, or
>both.  I'm as much of a software evangalist as anyone else, but I really
>don't think this makes any sense for a volunteer organization that seems
>to otherwise have goals of creating "open source" software.

But what would be more open than a system you can use for whatever you
want?  This is the goal I mostly have in writing free software.  I'd *like*
people to also share their work, but I'd rather they use my work, and not
share theirs, than reinvent any more wheels.

-s