[Celinux-dev] How to protect intellectual property while maximizing open source usage?

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Fri Sep 15 04:26:46 PDT 2006


On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > However, you see the effect: Some claim that BSD has less
> > momentum as Linux, e.g. when you compare user base, kernel
> > developer counts etc. But your mileage may vary, especially if
> > you're a BSD fan. No pun intented!
> 
> In the current Linux-Weekly-News is a nice comment by a reader 
> about problems of BSD style licenses:
> 
> -------------------------------------
> GPL is the big edge of Linux over the BSDs
> 
> Posted Aug 31, 2006 23:41 UTC (Thu) by subscriber dwheeler

Ah, David Wheeler...

    [...]
> (from http://lwn.net/Articles/197748/)

In the mean time this comment became an article on its own:
http://lwn.net/Articles/197875/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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