Marco van de Voort wrote: > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] >> Marco van de Voort wrote: >>>> Marco van de Voort wrote: >>>>>> - community projects are GPL or LGPL depending if they are libraries or >>>>>> programs >>>>>> - code developed by public funds (academic etc.) gets BSD >>>>> I think all code that is not really in danger of hostile takeover can >>>>> better >>>>> be BSD. The extra protection of (L)GPL is not going deliver anything, and >>>>> maybe the looser licensing yield some extra contributors. >>>> Is there any big pure community project being BSD (and friends) licensed? >>> BSD? >> Isn't the code base taken also from academic research projects? > > No. The core is the original AT&T source, though in term nearly everything > was changed by UCSD. But that only meant that UCSD had the position of core, > not that they programmed everything.
That makes it a not pure "community" project to me :) Pure community projects are e.g. fpc or linux. > > Same with the network stack. The original Darpa grant stack (which was BSD > contributed) was pretty bad. IIRC the BSD projects themselves rewrote them > into the NET/2 versions that formed the basis of most of the network stacks > today because it was better and faster than the original DARPA one. So they still didn't start from scratch, right :)? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
