On November 23, 2004 12:44, Niels Voll wrote: > Not sure if you noticed - I didn't make a case for or against the GPL or > BSD style licensing - I was just trying to say, that forking is not a > consequence of licensing.
ah, but it is. BSD allows for closed source forking, and so you tend to get a lot more forks of BSD software. this is sometimes desired, but not always. and it's really nasty since many/most of those forks never end up contributing back to community. this is the primary difference in forking between BSD and GPL software, IMHO. > Isn't it much more important to discuss for example the implications of > software patents rather than to have sibling squabbles between BSD and GPL? well, each license has its place. it's a matter of knowing which to use when to achieve the desired results (which means knowing what the results will be =). it's not so much a squabble as educating ourselves, because, yes, all Free Software is good =) that said, software patents are indeed a nasty, nasty, nasty thing. evil, even. -- Aaron J. Seigo Society is Geometric
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