Subject: Re: Eric Raymond talks about GPL and BSD licenses
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/08/2005 10:39:39
On 8-Jun-05, at 10:27 AM, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I hope he does comment on it, I'll be watching for it. I know the guy
> has written some pretty thought provoking stuff, but I don't have any
> opinion of him other than that. I know he's well known, and words like
> this coming from well known people is usually (note I didn't say
> always) a good thing.
I lost all respect for him when he told NetBSD that we didn't qualify
as "Open Source" because we didn't sell enough CD's.
(I was on 'core' at the time, we asked him if we could use his "Open
Source" branding, he refused us for that reason.)