Josef Grosch wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:27:12PM +1300, Joe Abley wrote:
> > This may be old news, but I follow -hackers, -arch and -current and
> > I hadn't seen it before:
> >
> > http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/
> >
> > Would be interested to hear informed opinion as to whether these
> > changes might find a permanent home in FreeBSD at some point in
> > the future.
>
> The license terms do not seem very good. I would advise caution. The last
> time we got into a pissing contest with these guys over license terms and
> who owns what it cost us 2 years of development and momentum which we are
> just now getting back.
Without commenting on the license, Bell labs was not the group that was
driving the lawsuit. It was AT&T/USG (Unix systems group) and later USL
(unix support labs). Bell labs is now a part of Lucent these days anyway.
Cheers,
-Peter
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