Ralph writes:
> The Open Group which does the official UNIX certification would beg to
> differ:

Purchasing a certificate granting the right to label one's product UNIX
does not make it a BSD.

> The market reality...

...is irrelevant to many of us.

> ...is that many programmers work on projects that are, at least in
> part, closed source.  Open source licenses other than the GPL allow
> these programmers to use and contribute to open source projects.

The Berkeley license as well as _some_ other Open Source licenses permit
them to keep some of their changes secret.  This is the very reason some
programmers use the GPL.
-- 
John Hasler 
[email protected]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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