On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com> wrote:
I am surprised by offers at GitHub and elsewhere of open source software to > the public under "either the BSD or the GPL". Take the BSD! It is fully > compatible with the GPL anyway. Always take the more generous offer of > software! I'm not sure if you meant this to go to the public license-discuss list. Some people are ideologues who refuse to have anything to do with software under one or another license. Offering multiple licenses is a strategy (misguided, in my opinion) to satisfy (some) such ideologues without alienating others. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities; analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities. --E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale
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