Hi, Le samedi 31 janvier 2026 à 17:19 +0100, Marek Mosiewicz a écrit : > First Debian contains BSD licensed packages so it also matters. > > Second Linux kernel is GPL licensed which is copyleft license. > > My observation is that BSD license could be also consdiered > > copyleft in sense that it guarantees that you do not need > > to pay for it . MIT licese allows you to sell it but BSD > > do not allow it. It even do not allow binary form to require be paid > > opposite to GPLs. The only difference is that GPL force distributor > to > provide > > source code while BSD do not require it. From one perspective it > could > > be consdier worse, but I had experiece of distributing modified by me > MPL > > code which also has that kind of obligation and I got sick and did > not > > done backup, so I did not comply. > > Third I cosndier debian mailing list readers interesting locutors.
You seem to be confusing free as-in-freedom and free as-in-unpaid, and you should really make the distinction ; but this is no place to discuss it : I suggest you move your discussion to the debian-legal mailing list instead of debian-devel. Cheers, J.Puydt
