On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: > > What do you say about EnterpriseDB, TCP/IP stack in Windows? When BSD > licensed software is distributed in binary form, there is no need to > give back code. Do you agree with this? >
I posted a link on what BSDL people think about it. Does my personal opinion matter if the authors are ok with it and if it is not illegal? http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119769638425153&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119770190928099&w=2 The fact that linux guys stopped what they started proves what they were porpagating about BSDL was wrong. And that is all i wanted to stay :-) Well I 've been in this list for quite some time and carefully avoided any talk on licences and freedom etc. or disputes and concentrated on helping people with the little I know. You can make that out from the archives. What really got on my nerves was http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2010-September/005159.html not the mail itself but the distros link in that mail! I came to this group but did not expect such radicalism. I am glad that you chose to disagree :-) I respect you for that. But whenever things got institutionalized a few radicals came and took over and started killing the spirit with the letter ( that is waht the gnu distros page is all about ). And then it progressed to redefining the letter to suit their own needs as v2 v3 etc. Glad that some of my mails did help you thin in a differrent angle. But the main intention was to show how nasty things can get if we start throwing mud at each other in the name of GPL, BSD etc. And let me tell you one thing. Of all the enthusiasm there was here in people to talk about freedom I wnder why no one commented anything on http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/2010-September/005256.html I guess either not many people saw that mail or they were more interested in talk about freedom than action? Well as for me I am not here to convince anybody that he should use GPL or BSD or anything like that. Because I son't define freedom the radical FSF way. As for my story in using Free Software it is partially written here those interested may read it. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-09/msg00083.html and you will know I am not a GPL basher either! cheers --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
