While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being criticized unfairly.
PJ wrote: > The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users. > The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from the users. You are using two different kind of statements here in such a way that it makes BSD style licences to look unfairly bad. IMHO, the correct way of comparing here would be: - BSD style licences are designed to help everybody regardless of intentions. This has helped users and developers alike. But in some case like Microsoft, it's intentions are abused to hurt users. - GPL style licences are designed foremost to help users. It doesn't share the intention/model of the closed source world, and therefore till now almost no closed source company has been able to abuse the intention of the licence. Criticizing BSD style licences is like criticizing public domain licences. Don't forget, unlike the last century and half, this was the only way knowledge has been passed on from generation to generation in human history. I don't know about you, but I am fairly proud about how humans have fared in progress of knowledge in this time. - Sandip _______________________________________________ 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]/
