On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:31:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >That said, i would never willingly release myself code under a BSDish > >licence, > >unless i get some compensation for it. The GPL has no such problem, because > >the way the GPL is used itself is compensation enough. > > Why is that? It's clear that the BSD license is more free than the > GPL license because you can do more with it; it almost looks like you're > afraid soemone might "steal" free code.
Indeed, i am afraid of that, and living on a non-mainstream architecture (read non-x86 here), powerpc, i am aware of the problematic of all those binary-only stuff out there, as well as the way apple handled the BSD/Darwin code, and i was no part of code i personally author to be used for such things. When i contributed to XFree86 (the Permedia3 driver and some assorted code, hey i even have some tentative 3dlabs Wildcat VP code lying around if someone is interested, non-accel only though, as i couldn't get the accel engine to do anything usefull and visible), i contributed all my code as BSD code though, and would have dual licenced as BSD/GPL if the same code would have been used as linux fbdev driver. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
