From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 12 13:45: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BBF37BA9A for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:44:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4C15; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:45:46 -0700 Message-ID: <39454B1E.659B3F6A@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:42:06 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Hines , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Advocacy... References: <20000612195345.45021.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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