GPL vs BSD Licence

Dennis Koegel amf at hobbit.neveragain.de
Mon Oct 25 23:51:31 PDT 2004


On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:32:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > Because Juniper, for example [...]
> 
> 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.

Of course I do realize that. It was merely an example, apparently not
the best one. It's their choice to do or don't, that's all I said.

(For terminology: The i386 part with FreeBSD is the routing engine, the
awesome hardware is the forwarding engine).

And now I need to digest this Linksys + Zebra mixture... ;-)



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