2010/9/3 jtd <[email protected]>:
>> 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.
But BSD license (except the original BSD license, which had an
advertising clause, but it was dropped later) is a Free Software
license.
> And Public Domain is not
> Freesoftware.
from above link, Free Software Foundation considers works in Public
Domain are Free Software and compatible with GPL.
"Public Domain
Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means the
material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically
speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well
have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public
domain material is compatible with the GNU GPL. "
> 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.
Yes.
>> 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.
But you used Open Source in brackets for BSDish, but both are not
synonyms and to emphasis its difference with GPL, copyleft and
non-copyleft is more effective.
Praveen
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