From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 10: 8: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B0B37B422 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1070"@[136.142.89.21]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K2L2JPV2MK00WUEX@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:07:59 EDT Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:10:50 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3ADF1C1A.6FFC234D@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: <20010419075750.P5664-100000@blues.jpj.net> <20010419185356.M88142@lpt.ens.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > ... > > There are at least two projects -- ghostscript and qt -- whose authors > (Peter Deutsch and Troll Tech, respectively) were uneasy about the GPL > because it does not *sufficiently* restrict commercial use. They > wanted to sell commercial versions to people who wanted, while keeping > it free for free software people, but were worried about loopholes in > the GPL. So both wrote their own licenses. Deutsch chose to release > old versions under the GPL, while Troll Tech eventually decided to > dual-license their current versions because they wanted the community's > goodwill. I simply can't imagine them, or anyone else who wanted to > make money, choosing the BSD license. > There's also the case of Kaffe. They started with a BSD license, after seeing companies adopt the code without giving back they turned GPL. It ended up being pretty bad for the consumers (us) because the code was never adopted by mozilla due to the poison pill (it's not even LGPLd). It was also good for Microsoft because they licensed the code for their own purposes. My $0.02 cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message