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Eclipse/BSD Released by Bell Labs
howardjp writes "Bell Labs has released Eclipse/BSD, a quality of service research platform based on FreeBSD 3.4. From the Web page: 'Eclipse provides flexible and fine-grained QoS support for applications. Its design allows legacy or Eclipse-unaware applications to provide QoS without the need of modification or recompilation. A simple API is provided for (new) applications to take addvantage [sic] of the fine-grained QoS support.'"
Actually, it shows just how free it is. Lucent has taken the product and released a version which benefits everyone involved, including the developers of the modification.
Nobody here knows
What QOS systems are
At least i sure don't
The posts will all be
offtopic BSD flames
cruel and ignorant
Natalie Portman
will probably dominate
the whole discussion
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Its EXTREMELY BSD. the BSDL essentially says "you can take this source code, modify it, and relicense it, as long as you indemnify the original authors and give due credit"
This is prefectly within anyone's rights, in fact, the BSD community ENCOURAGES this type of thing.
Remember, us as BSD developers want to make money off our code, and be compensated for time spent. The Bell Labs/Lucent people have spent alot of time and money into these modifications. If you don't like the licensing terms, you can take the FreeBSD 3.4 code and modify it yourself, OR just simply not use it.
The GPL has nothing to do with this. the GPL is a completely different license, that does not allow for this type of thing. Had it allowed for modification and sale of Linux source, then Lucent *might* have used that instead.
Remember, each license has a different goal in mind. the GPL is "Viral" and is inherited by its children. The BSDL only effects one generation unless the person modifying also applies the BSDL.
-Pat
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If you'd taken the time to look at the site, you would have seen that they are distributing a *PATCH* against FreeBSD 3.4, not the entire distribution. That means that the license applies only to the code they've written, not to the BSD source.