On 12 Jan 2003, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 05:34, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > Take out FreeBSD references !! Linux alone should suffice... > Why not..? we support FLOSS in all forms.
Just remember -- this is an ongoing conversation in most LUG's. Some take the "L" literally and say that if the Linux kernel isn't involved, then they aren't interested. > BSD is possibly the most lenient Free Licensing scheme. He aint > referring to M$ is he...its just BSD. BTW: When discussing licenses, you may want to check out the draft I started here. BSD is the most popular non-Copyleft Free Software license, and the GPL is the most popular Copyleft Free Software license. I happen to believe that more obligation to share makes a license better, but it is important to realize that different people have different motivations. http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/license.html ---cut--- Using public domain as a center point, we will try to create a one-dimensional line where the positive direction involves more obligations to share and the negative direction involves more obligations not to share. It needs to be recognized that this is a considerable simplification of software licensing given that some license agreements can be very complex, and software may be licensed under more than one license agreement at the same time. While FLOSS tends to large numbers of software packages sharing identical licenses, proprietary software tends to have different licenses for different version of the same piece of software. source non-Copyleft Copyleft under typical Freeware Public Free Free NDA proprietary Shareware Domain Software Software +-------+------------+-+---------+---------------+-------------+ - 0 + ---cut--- > /Sumeet --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
