Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 07:19:30 -0700 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <200008171419.HAA21452@sharmas.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20000816221119.B7276@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000816221119.B7276@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:11:19 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > (3) It is yet another counterexample of corporates disliking GPL > software. I hate these license wars and, after reading these lists > for some time, I know I'm not alone (though I don't know what the > percentages are). But a far-from-insignificant section of the BSD > advocates enjoys flaming the GPL violently, at any provocation, in a > way that seems to do more harm than good. Lots of software being > developed for linux is ported to BSD but not emphasised very much > by the BSD community, and I think the licensing is part of the reason; > why not get over this hangup, and use these things to promote BSD > the same way they're promoting linux? The bigotry comes as much from the GPL camp as the BSD camp. The mozilla web page claims, non-GPL licenses are "obstacles for contribution and reuse of code". http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/mozilla-relicense-faq.html Everyone in the world (including python, perl) and others who don't necessarily agree with GPL have to become "GPL compatible" in order to survive. I see two reasons why BSD is a separate entity, as opposed to being "merged" with linux (people may disagree here): 1. Different development model 2. Different licensing model I think they're both equally important. So the new corporate wisdom seems to be - a dead open source project needs GPL in order to be revived. Let's see if the hypothesis can be tested in the real world. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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