Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:50:16 EDT From: TM4525@aol.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence Message-ID: <1e0.2d870451.2eaff668@aol.com>
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In a message dated 10/26/04 2:26:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, flowers@users.sourceforge.net writes: > Foundation, who is the copyright holder of the GPL license itself. > In fact, the FSF advises authors to transfer copyright rights of their > work to the FSF to avoid these problems. >Ah, so your point is that people should transfer their copyrights to an >organization dedicated to keeping the code free. Well, maybe they should,>but that has nothing to do with which license is used. I think they both have it wrong. If you want to donate your code to the general community, make it available with no restrictions. The entire concept of "here, use my crappy code but don't make any money off of it" is totally lame. If someone takes it and doesn't give away the changes it doesn't diminish the original contribution. Its still there. Finishing a product is what has value. Anyone can write code that does this or that. Making it into something that someone is willing to pay for is what has value. And the more products that are available, the better off the community is. Even if they're not free. You still have the choice of paying for it or not. And you still have the original contribution to change as you please.
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