Time for BSD vs. GPL, round 2048!
First off, let me say that almost all software I make on my own time is
under the GPL, because I don't want somebody else taking something I worked
on in my own spare time and gave away freely to be put in some propreitery
monstrosity that barely gives the user the "freedom" to open the shrink
wrap.
However, some things are a special case. Recently, RMS supported putting
the Ogg Vorbis libraries under the BSD license (instead of the LGPL as they
were before) because it was more important that there be a widespread music
format (even within propreity applications) then to protect the user's
freedom to copy, change, and redistribute the software.
Following a similar logic, I feel it may be more important that there be
widespread use of Freenet clients then protecteing the user's freedoms.
Therefore, I propose that there should be an FCP library under the BSD
license, along with any other classes nessary (such as Params) to get a
working client. Other classes, of course, will be licensed as they allways
have been.
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