From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Feb 26 11:13:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5621037B491 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA6E29; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:18:08 -0800 Message-ID: <3A9AAACF.8FBF2721@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:13:19 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again References: <002201c09f0a$2b5d5480$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > I think the premise of BSD is that it is the minimum that > the law requires to prevent the University of California > from being sued for providing faulty software. :-) But the original post was asking why people *use* the BSD license. This has nothing whatsoever to do with why it was created. Some people still use it as a CYA license. Others have a philosophical bent towards public domain, but still want to CYA. Some use it because it is more "Free" in the Stallman sense than the GPL. And a few people use it simply because Stallman prefers that they don't. But most people don't "choose" a license, they simply use what is expected of them. If they think that they're supposed to use the GPL then that is what they will use. This is why most Open Source developers use the GPL, because only GNU has any sort of license PR. If you look at the KDE developers you will find a great diversity of licenses because they were forced by the silly Qt controversy to actually think about the licenses they were using. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message