Am 15.04.11 16:33, schrieb Peter J. Holzer: > On 2011-04-14 21:12:35 +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: >> Am 14.04.11 20:54, schrieb Ken Hornstein: >>> Can we all respectfully agree to disagree on the issue of licenses? >>> The *BSDs use a BSD-style license, Linux uses the GPL. Both have >>> their advantages and disadvantages, and your license preference depends >>> on your worldview (indeed, what you consider an advantage versus a >>> disadvantage depends on your worldview). >>> >>> Also, I would note that the soekris mailing list is not the appropriate >>> place to hash out the merits of licenses; there are better places >>> for that discussion. >> >> Keep in mind that the OP asked why some folks favor A over B. And >> license X vs. license Y is a perfectly valid response. >> >> There is no judgment in the licenses themselves, just *why* one is >> prefererred *by someone* for a *specific application*. > > I'm still wondering what the application may be where the license of the > OS may actually make a difference.
if you build OS images then this can be an issue > > I use soekris boxes as router/firewall thingies for our own organisation > and customers. So far I've not run into a situation where the license > would have made a difference. I have done a bit of custom programming, > but just because the kernel is GPL doesn't mean that the applications > running on it have to be GPL (as a lot of commercial software vendors > writing software for Linux can testify) - and most of my programs were > in Perl, so the customer got the source anyway. We do kernel level programming, so the license matters > > Sure, if I need to modify some GPL code, I have to give those > modifications to the customer, but that doesn't seem very likely: Even > if I was a hardware vendor who sold soekris boxes with custom PCI cards > and proprietary drivers I could get by with providing binary-only > drivers (if Nvidia and EMC can do it ...). > > So, apart from philosophical reasons (which I can understand): What do > you really do with your soekris boxes what the Linux license(s) would > prevent you from doing? > > I'm really just curious, not trying to escalate the flame war. maybe just accept that some companies see the world in a different light than others ;) and then there is of course all this work that "we" (the BSD community) are not allow to talk about. you would be surprised if knew where BSD is used.... > > hp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
