Re: Microsoft IP-stack ?!

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:25:03 +0100 (BST)


> >close to freebsd - and the BSD license permits such use
>
> Which is a good reason to *NOT* release open source code under
> BSD style licenses. You might as well just send your code
> directly to Microsoft.

This isnt the place for licensing discussions, and you should probably
consider that DARPA funded the BSD stack and UC Berkeley can hold it up
as probably one of the most successful DARPA fundings of all time in terms
of getting their research into the commercial world.

Please remember what UC Berkely were trying to achieve.

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