+----[ Giorgos Keramidas ]---------------------------------------------
| On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 08:56:09PM -0500, Colin wrote:
| > 
| > As interesting as this looks, unfortunately the license it comes with
| > efffectively precludes incorporating it into FreeBSD.  The license is
| > for single-user non-commercial only.  They also included derivative
| > works in the restrictions.
| 
| So much for Stallman's efforts to be the meanest man on earth when it
| comes to "derivatives".  They sure have beat him here :/

I don't think that that is an entirely fair analysis. They are afterall
a business, and business units need to justify their existence.

If it goes the normal way Lucent goes, Eclipse as a unit (license, staff etc)
will be sold off to the highest bidder at some point down the track.

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