On Friday 03 September 2010 14:36:52 Praveen A wrote: > 2010/9/3 jtd <[email protected]>: > > So far BSDish (or OpenSource) software when taken into the > > private domain, starts suffering from bitrot and extracts a heavy > > toll in maintanence costs. However when used in egovernance, it's > > the taxpayer that will foot the bill for bitrot. > > BSD or BSDish or Public Domain is still Free Software (as well as > Open Source). > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
Not quite. BSD is not public domain. And Public Domain is not Freesoftware. Some flavours of BSD licences are GPLV2 and above compatible. However afaik all flavours are freesoftware, since they permit you all the GPLV2 freedoms in addition to making private, binary only distributions. > You might want to use copyleft and non-copyleft to differentiate > between BSDish and GPLish software. Agreed. But here we are trying to clarify "Public software", Public Domain software and FOSS. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
