RE: GPL vs BSD Licence

From: Ted Mittelstaedt (tedm_at_toybox.placo.com)
Date: 10/26/04

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    To: "Dennis Koegel" <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de>, "Philipp Huber" <uebs@gmx.at>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:32:04 -0700

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dennis Koegel
    > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:21 AM
    > To: Philipp Huber
    >
    > Because Juniper, for example, are perfectly free to decide against
    > making their changes to the (in this case) FreeBSD code available
    > anyone at all.

    You do realize, don't you, that the interesting part of a Juniper
    is the microcode in their DSP routing engine. FreeBSD is only used
    to control the routing engine in a Juniper router, it isn't used AS
    the routing engine.

    I really doubt that anything Juniper has done to FreeBSD would be
    of much interest to anyone other than Cisco Systems, and Cisco would
    only be interested in it as a way of finding out weaknesses in Juniper
    routers that they could market against.

    Actually a more interesting example is some of the Linksys routers
    do indeed use an embedded Linux along with Zebra as the routing engine.

    Ted
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