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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:26:26 +0200
From:      Fred Morcos <fred.morcos@gmail.com>
To:        "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why Clang
Message-ID:  <CAH3a3KWQOOV9St81E8Wn99WbsCupqE%2BPEaVsoW15C9f_QreqjA@mail.gmail.com>
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I don't see much fruit coming out of that conversation anymore.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria)
<mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> wrote:
>
>> GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his
>> code under those licenses: He wants it to be free for use,
>> but not to be turned into closed source products.
>
> What a lying sonofabitch. That is not called freedom. That is called
> "forcible, viral open source". I think we can all see the difference. Open
> your motherfucking eyes, communist goofball...
>
>> A programmer who does not want to raise this barrier will
>> typically use the BSD license which is "more free".
>
> No, it's just plain "free."
>
>> BSDL in opposite is often criticized a "rape me license".
>
> No, it is not, except perhaps by lying atheist Marxist bastards and his
> religious adherents.
>
>> It explicitely (!) allows creating derivates in a closed
>> source manner. This means that parts of BSD licensed code
>> can be a key component in a proprietary closed source
>> product that is for sale (e. g. a firewall appliance),
>> and nobody will find out about that fact.
>
> Now you got it! GPL is about forcing people to do what /you/ want and BSD is
> about letting them do what /they/ want. Let's see if you can guess which one
> of those licenses is about freedom. Hint: freedom is not defined as forcing
> people to do what you want.
>
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