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Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software
From: |
Jaroslav Hajek |
Subject: |
Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:04:50 +0100 |
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:
> I stand correctd. I had written:
>
>>It is a program released under the first and most
>>widespread free software license: the GPL.
>
> While first public release of GPL in February 1989 is in fact preceding
> BSD by four months, apparently the MIT licence dates back to september
> 1985, release date of X9. Both the GPL and BSD had predecessors that
> were not however widely or publicly distributed, and about which I have
> no details.
>
> Thanks to Judd Storrs for pointing this out to me.
>
You should note, however, that the original 4-clause BSD license (with
the infamous advertising clause) is not recommended neither by FSF nor
OSI. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license
The more modern flavors (such as FreeBSD) are younger.
regards
--
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, (continued)
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- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Richard Stallman, 2010/02/17
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2010/02/16
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Judd Storrs, 2010/02/15
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/02/16
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Richard Stallman, 2010/02/13
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Sergei Steshenko, 2010/02/13
- Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/02/14
Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Uwe Dippel, 2010/02/16
Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Francesco Potortì, 2010/02/18
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Jaroslav Hajek <=
Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software, Judd Storrs, 2010/02/19