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Old 23rd April 2011
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Originally Posted by nilsgecko View Post
Sad.
This is one of the things I love most about BSD. Its warm and friendly community.

You don't agree with the point? Then I again don't understand how you could ever think the BSD license would offer an advantage over GPL for patents, at least for freely available source. The BSD license says nothing whatever about patents. Obviously there's no advantage there for the projects themselves, only for their users with code to add on that should remain hidden.

I should backtrack and say I'm not aware of patented items used in BSD, but I'd be surprised if there weren't something somewhere. Maybe even a violation of this patent they went after Linux for. It sounded pretty broad, like keeping a linked list, automatically freeing items you notice are unused as you traverse it and using a hash to identify the items unused, or something like that. Might not BSD do something similar somewhere in their file system code?
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