Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:42:06 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Tom Hines <tomhines2@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Advocacy... Message-ID: <39454B1E.659B3F6A@acuson.com> References: <20000612195345.45021.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Tom Hines wrote: > > >What's the best way to counter the continual FUD that the GPL protects > >software better than the BSD license? > > You can't counter it because it's true. The GPL has an important > restriction that BSD doesn't -- it requires all modifications to the code > that are redistributed are done so under the same license. That protects > the software. I have to disagree. The GPL does a very good job of guaranteeing *future derivatives* will also be GPLd, but is no better or worse than the BSD license to protect the original software. What does one want protection against? As near as I can tell, it's against damage of some sort. But how do you damage freely redistributable and infinitely reproducible software? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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