-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Stremler wrote: > Imagine the uproar of $despised_corporation took code out of the > public domain and relicensed it with their $oppressive_license -- there > would be an uproar. Cries of "theft!" would ring out. Passionate > denunciations would be posted to slashdot. The skies would shake with > the wrath of the assembled geeks....
But companies do this all the time and nobody cares. There isn't much of a difference between your example and making BSD code proprietary. > Pure speculative (and wishful) thinking, *I* think. Perhaps. Either way, arguing over the goodness of the BSD license vs the GPL license is rather like arguing over whether the toilet paper should go over the top of the roll or under the bottom. At least you have toilet paper. - -- Tracy "Over the top" Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDBkUc9PIYKZYVAq0RAkUNAJ9UNxClOi4XlL+WOQErdNJIbd2kVACePoRo AIGqZeOMmLqM1SudMsBheu8= =mtlA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
