"Sancho2k.net Lists" <lists@sancho2k.net> writes:

> Now I write another program, I release it under a BSD license, and
> someone grabs it up, modifies it, and decides they want to close it up
> and label it and sell it for $1000 dollars. Is not my original release
> still available to the public at large, under the original BSD
> license? Why is it thought that mongers can take the code and rob the
> rest of it?

Of course it's still available, and that's a goal of the OpenBSD
project. The members want to see as wide use as possible. The only
problem is when the development team gets bought out (or the project
gets forked and dominated by a commercial interest with large
resources). It seems that may not be that much of a risk as a
practical matter: much of the infrastructure is under BSD-like
licenses and it seems to work great. Time will tell.

> Point in case is Microsoft's Unix tools for Windows. OpenBSD tools,
> modified to run on Windows, closed up and wrapped neatly in a EULA,
> yet we still have OpenBSD.

And I think that's exactly what the OpenBSD project wants to have
happen.

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KBK