From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 14 00:50:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65CF106566B for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.ipinc.net (mail.ipinc.net [65.75.192.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8658D8FC08 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedsmac.ipinc.net (tedsmac.ipinc.net [65.75.206.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ipinc.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2E0a3em043896; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:36:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <49BAFC07.3030009@toybox.placo.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:36:23 -0700 From: Ted Mittelstaedt User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: prad References: <20090311012018.2075c3d9@gom.home> <20090311123644.77f632e3@gom.home> In-Reply-To: <20090311123644.77f632e3@gom.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.ipinc.net [65.75.192.11]); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:36:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/9105/Fri Mar 13 04:58:59 2009 on mail.ipinc.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.1 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on mail.ipinc.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd vs gpl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:50:45 -0000 prad wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 > prad 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