The goal of the BSD license is to promote the development of useful
software. How it is used and what benefits the end users gain (or
lose) are not relevant to the programmers who want to contribute code
under this license.
If I want to see my software widely used and don't care about the fact
that the end user may not be able to modify it, I would choose the BSD
license.
are you sure bsd-style licenses forbid enduser modification? Most of the
internet is down for me, so i couldnt verify this
As far as I know, BSD allows 'someone' to make a derivative work out
of a 'free' work and then prohibit the community from looking at the
source, changing, modifying or distributing it further. In fact
Microsoft did just that with the TCP/IP stack developed by BSD.
Note that the license does not prohibit from making enduser
modification, but allows others to prohibit, whereas the GPL prohibits
the others from prohibiting.
Cheers,
Debarshi
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