Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:36:23 -0700 From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd vs gpl Message-ID: <49BAFC07.3030009@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20090311123644.77f632e3@gom.home> References: <20090311012018.2075c3d9@gom.home> <20090311123644.77f632e3@gom.home>
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prad wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 > prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote: > > >> do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? >> >> > thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. > > the links some of you provided were very interesting and helpful. > i had no idea there were so many licenses either!!! > > it is a curious situation that the 'freedom' which insists on > propagating itself (gpl), can be argued to be not really free, while > 'freedom' without such a restriction can permit its own termination. > > i like this summation the best: > > "The bottom line is, the GPL is not anti-commercial or anti- > capitalistic; it is only anti-proprietary. The BSD license, on the > other hand, is very unrestrictive, and allows proprietary knockoffs. > Which you choose depends on what you need and what you value. There's > nothing more to it than that." > (http://slashdot.org/articles/99/06/23/1313224.shtml) > > now off to establish what we value ... > > Just curious, why is what a 5 year-old article having to say with regards to licensing at all relevant? These licenses aren't worth the paper they are printed on until tested in court. The Monsoon Multimedia/BusyBox lawsuit, which was started years after this article was written, is far more relevant. Ted
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