From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 11 19:36:47 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 B9247106564A for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905728FC18 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:36:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3ml1so-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.141.140]) by pd2mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 11 Mar 2009 13:36:47 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=9sSjY8p1AAAA:8 a=KoDPwd6_AAAA:8 a=lIQknwuETw_ZE3XOcPcA:9 a=BIl_BilZprEcizzmXnYA:7 a=cuEKM2oIc0IJZfojyUvTZY4VhoMA:4 a=TXbzCwChSWwA:10 Received: from s0106000d935c7902.du.shawcable.net (HELO gom.home) ([70.67.160.177]) by pd3ml1so-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 11 Mar 2009 13:36:47 -0600 Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81341701E for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:36:44 -0700 From: prad To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090311123644.77f632e3@gom.home> In-Reply-To: <20090311012018.2075c3d9@gom.home> References: <20090311012018.2075c3d9@gom.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:36:48 -0000 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 ... -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's