GPL vs BSD Licence

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at 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