Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:36:21 +0000 From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions @ freebsd. org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bsd vs gpl Message-ID: <9a52b1190903110136q1d16e73cq56ba0404224ea362@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090311012018.2075c3d9@gom.home> References: <20090311012018.2075c3d9@gom.home>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:20 AM, prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote: > > however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the > goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you > give credit to the creator, whereas the gpl folks say do what you want > as long as you keep it free. > > is this a fair summation? > > do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? > > -- > In friendship, > prad > There are two rights associated. Rights to Usage Rights to Modify When you take a piece of code licensed under GPL and "modify" it, you are required to make your changes available and also under the same license ie. GPL. So the rights to modify comes with covenants in GPL. In the case of BSD and ASL, there is no such covenant. It may also be pertinent to know that under any license, the recipient cannot change the copyright ownership or the notice for eg. " ... The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. ..." -- thanks Saifi.
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