Hi!
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:30 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
people monetizing their hard work. But I am curious about why this was
done.
Give people the most flexibility with the work that they put into the
project. I've been finding BSD serves this purpose better then GPL for
a while now. There was a long bit of a talk I gave on this back at
OSCON but it simply came down to "let people reuse their work in
whatever manner they want too".
I was talking to someone writing functions this morning. He reuses his
work elsewhere and wanted to make sure he could keep doing so. For
him? His code is all new and is not derived from the base code so for
him it is pretty important to keep his work in a format where he can
keep using it wherever he wants (and he was going to add explicit BSD
headers to his files).
Frankly though, I hate these license discussions and won't really get
into them (and really won't debate them, and I say this as a warning
to anyone who is thinking to reply to this email and get me into a
debate). In recent years I've become a lot more of supporter of just
BSD'ing stuff and staying out of license discussions. People love to
debate the GPL... I don't.
When I get around to it, I'll write up more of my thoughts about this
and put it into a blog. My interpretation of the GPL is similar to
Linus's... but frankly it doesn't matter. What matters at the end of
the day is what a lawyer can get away with in court.
Cheers,
-Brian
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