-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > On 1/8/07, John Hurliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's also important to note that libsecondlife is under a more >> liberal >> license (BSD) than the viewer which will be released under the >> GPL. This >> means there are scenarios where libsecondlife would make sense to use >> and code adapted from the official viewer might not, and it also >> means >> we need to be careful about pulling code out of the viewer and >> sticking >> it in libsl. > > I do not agree with "more liberal", because I say GPL protects > liberty, while BSD licenses do not. But never mind.
Though I referred to a license as liberal recently, it is not a good adjective for comparison between licenses. In comparing 'free' licenses along the axis of 'liberated' I would argue that BSD liberates the developers while the GPL 2 liberates the code. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFowsGwJCr4A9g8scRAgFlAJ4xlKv9dHkndb2uJ28BO/7tz6HOogCeITQ4 MkjezQgqM1ehcLGriKCDpyo= =u066 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Libsecondlife-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/libsecondlife-dev
