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To: N3WBI3

You can believe whatever you want, but the fact is the BSD license isn’t a “reciprocal” license like Stallman’s. Monsoon obviously should have used BSD instead of Linux to avoid having to deal with all the copyleftists. That’s what Slingbox did, which makes a similar device to the one from Monsoon. Works great, we have 2 of them in fact, and Slinbox didn’t have to deal with Stallman or give any of their code away either. Hopefully more companies will see the advantages and start using BSD as well.


53 posted on 09/21/2007 1:43:05 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
"but the fact is the BSD license isn’t a “reciprocal” license like Stallman’s." It has terms attached * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. There are require terms of the license which, by your logic, are not legally binding in any way shape or form.
54 posted on 09/21/2007 1:54:21 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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