"Brendan O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The specific commercial use prevented would be modification of the source
> without redistribution.
>
> Anyway, I received a reply from Theo: here it is, in all its glory. (Carated
> text mine)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ...They were hoping to have the support of the various BSD distributions,
> > and
> > while there is some general knowledge of what FreeBSD, for instance, might
> > do with this project,
>
> FreeBSD does not care about freedom. They only care about market
> expansion. They'll merge non-free code into their repository any time
> they get a chance, as long as they can sell the concept the right way
> against people who disagree. They plan to do these things, and they
> will. Not because they are free.
FreeBSD does not integrate non BSDl code if the whole project would depend on
it. Dtrace is an add on and ZFS is an add on too. You are still able to
use FreeBSD if you do not use the CDDL code.
Jörg
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