Dave Jones apparently doesn't think BSD is GPL-compatibleeither...

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Aug 17 01:58:35 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 15 August 2006 6:01 pm, Jason Schoon wrote:
> On 8/15/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > C) http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2004021803026NWDTLL
> 
> 
> Note the very interesting (and pertinent) quote by Theo de Raadt here
> though:
> 
> "...de Raadt elaborated on his decision in the same post: "I've tried to
> negotiate with David Dawes, and show him that his new license is not
> acceptable, and he has been hostile and it has gone nowhere. He keeps
> insisting that his license is a standard BSD licenses, yet, he won't use the
> same words that Berkeley used; if his words were intended to be compatible
> to the Berkeley spirit then he would be happy to use the same words; but he
> is not, and insists on different words which a lot of the community has
> trouble with."

Yeah, when Theo accuses someone of being unreasonable, it sounds pretty 
extreme. :)

Keep in mind that the code Theo maintains is under the BSD license, not the 
GPL, so that's really the one he cared about...

Rob
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