Dear Sandeep,
I feel the reason why RMS came up with GPL is *TO PROTECT THE
PROGRAMERS*.
GPL *DOES* not give you the freedom to Sell the GPL'ed software. The BSD
License On the other hand does. The only problem with the BSD license is
that anyone (or any company) can just sell it the entire world.
Tomorrow M$ might just take Freebsd & OpenBSD, take the best features of
both, add a few comments and *brand,package,advertise and sell* it as M$
Winduhs 2099 (to be fair to M$, thats the minimum amount of time they wolud
take to Really write such an OS). So you can very well imagine the problem
here. people who might not even have heard about Free/openBSD (or any BSD)
will think M$ software is better than any freesoftware.
I personally feel that RMS in his zeal to stop such things from happening
came up with GPL, to protect the programmer.
Now that's just my humble opinion..
MANI
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandip Bhattacharya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [linux-delhi] gnu website and linux.com
I agree and understand the concept of "free software"('i.e. what the
free software proponents say). However, my view of *complete* freedom is
not GPL but rather the BSD license as Raj had once told us at one of
ours Dilli Haat meetings. In my view, in any rights, if there is any
sort of restrictions it can't be called *totally* free(Just think about
it, doesn't it make common sense?). In this context I therefore feel the
Freesoftware foundation is confusing people by changing the meaning of
freedom. Freedom means no strings right?
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