Hi, Not sure if this is going off-topic. Anyways, my thoughts below:
On 5/5/07, PJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me and some others regard the extra freedom of the BSD style licences as being > analogous to the granting freedom to a plantation holder to own slaves, Isn't that cruel? > The GPL, for those who are wondering about this analogy, and in particular > how it applies to software, has a restriction that is designed to prevent > non-sharing of code. How? GPL has four freedoms: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > In contrast, the BSD allows a company > to take the code, alter it and sell it as its own without accrediting the > original developer, and without sharing the modified code. ... for their selfish, greedy needs without any consideration or respect for the users. > Well, in software, > there are several known examples where Microsoft has taken BSD code, altered > it, and tried to lock users in to their way of doing things so that they can > exploit them forever after. To an extent they have succeeded more than failed. This is the reason why GPL is important. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
