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From: | Mike Miller |
Subject: | Re: Mathworks hosting GPL'd software |
Date: | Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:05:35 -0600 (CST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, forkandwait wrote:
By using a BSD license, one does NOT restrict the software so licensed -- in fact, the BSD license is LESS restricted, in that a commercial company can fold the code into a product, copyRIGHT that product, and resell it with full restrictions like hidden source and licensing (Mac OS X, for example). Such behavior is directly prohibited by the GPL.By using a BSD license, though, you wind up allowing a continuing ecology of copyrighted and restricted software, while the GPL actively fights it.
With BSD you get more freedom. GPL restricts freedom. If software were guns, and I gave you a gun under the GPL, you would be allowed to do almost anything you wanted with your gun, but under the BSD license your freedom would expand to allow you to shoot me with it.
It's like the freedom GWB was incessantly concerned about: The freedom of the powerful to amass ever more power and use it to crush everything in their way.
Mike
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