On Tue, 08 May 2007 09:26:57 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
So, my objection is to the throttling of the supply side, by keeping
the enhancements from the community. With the GPL, if the demand goes
high enough, others can come in to supply to same service, or people
can help themselves --
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is there any other way that the BSD is better for developers
than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
software licensed under the so-called GPL-incompatible licenses;
something that isn't possible in the GPL (the LGPL
On Mon, 07 May 2007 11:32:36 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I am not sure I am convinced by these statements. As a developer, I
fail to see how the GPL helps me any less than the BSD style licenses
do -- unless you assume that all developers want to squirrel code
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On Monday 07 May 2007 11:31, Anant Narayanan wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is there any other way that the BSD is better for
developers than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
The GPL allows
This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception
about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip]
The original statement did not make this distinction. Had
you said that the authors not being helped by the GPL are closed
source folks, I
On Mon, 7 May 2007 13:45:28 +0530, Raj Mathur said:
This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception
about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip] The original statement did not make this distinction. Had you
said that the authors not being
So, my objection is to the throttling of the supply side, by keeping
the enhancements from the community. With the GPL, if the demand
goes high enough, others can come in to supply to same service, or
people can help themselves -- since the supply of the enhancement
code
While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being
criticized unfairly.
PJ wrote:
The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users.
The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from the users.
You are using two different kind of
Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being
criticized unfairly.
PJ wrote:
The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users.
The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from
