>> Here is why _we_ use *BSD: Because the license matters for us. > I guess that attitude is ok if you always want to be a taker and > never a giver.
I avoid the GPL when feasible. The only GPLed software I write is modifications to already-infected software and stuff I'm paid to write under the GPL. This is not because I "want to be a taker rather than giver". Almost everything I write I place in the public domain and put up for anyone to fetch who cares to bother. It's because I don't want to impose the GPL's restrictions on my software's recipients. It's because I resist being told I must do something even if it is something I usually will do when able. It's because I don't support the GPL's politics. The implication that anyone who prefers a freer license must "always want to be a taker and never a giver" is not only logically unjustifiable and factually wrong but outright insulting. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
