Re: TCFS for FreeBSD?

From: David G. Andersen (danderse@cs.utah.edu)
Date: 10/14/02 

Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:10:46 -0600
From: "David G. Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

Brett Glass just mooed:
> Just checked, and it's GPLed. (Which it shouldn't be, because it is sponsored
> by DARPA.) Can't use it -- both by policy and for practical reasons (we can't
> fix bugs ourselves because we can't look at the code).

  Please don't turn this into a religious discussion.

  But to respond to a factual error in your message: Our DARPA program
managers are content with us GPL'ing code. An important part of
DARPA sponsorship is tech transfer to both civilian and military
applications. The GPL and BSD licenses, as well as not releasing
the code and creating a startup, are all viewed as good ways for
taking sponsored research and making something useful out of it.
The important part is that it gets out there and improves the state
of technology.

  I don't care what your politics are, but don't spread incorrect
information.

  This discussion is now quite off-topic for -security. This is my
last message.

  -Dave 

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