Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Jan 2008 22:28 UTC, submitted by BSDfan
"4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System v4.0 under the BSD license for FreeBSD and other BSD compliant operating systems. OSS is a cross platform API that provides drivers for most consumer and professional audio devices for UNIX and POSIX based operating systems, including Linux. Owing to its open architecture, applications developed on one supporting operating system platform can be easily recompiled on any other platform. Open Sound System is also available for Linux under the GPLv2 license and OpenSolaris under the CDDL license. It is also available for commercial and proprietary operating systems under the 4Front commercial license."
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RE: Good move for Unix, bad move for 4Front.
by binarycrusader on Wed 9th Jan 2008 01:22
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Member since:2005-07-06
The GPL and CDDL rather limited the comercial, proprietary use that could be made of OSS by parties outside 4Front. Now with a release under the BSD license, 4Front have esentially given away the ability to use OSS in closed-source products, while not getting anything for it. In one fell swoop, then just did away with their business.
The GPL did, the CDDL did not (not from any practical standpoint).
RE: Good move for Unix, bad move for 4Front.
by Soulbender on Wed 9th Jan 2008 03:42
in reply to "Good move for Unix, bad move for 4Front."
Member since:2005-08-18
In one fell swoop, then just did away with their business.
Yes, I'm sure they didn't in any way at all investigate the different options and instead let some random engineer make the decision.
And how could they have forgotten to consult the business model experts at the OSNews forums?
RE: Good move for Unix, bad move for 4Front.
by vegai on Wed 9th Jan 2008 13:01
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Member since:2005-12-25
Read here.
http://www.4front-tech.com/hannublog/
It seems that they killed their revenue by going to GPL/CDDL. So BSD shouldn't hurt more.
RE[2]: Good move for Unix, bad move for 4Front.
by Flatland_Spider on Wed 9th Jan 2008 15:39
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The GPL and CDDL rather limited the comercial, proprietary use that could be made of OSS by parties outside 4Front. Now with a release under the BSD license, 4Front have esentially given away the ability to use OSS in closed-source products, while not getting anything for it. In one fell swoop, then just did away with their business.