Re: [Nolug] RMS vs Cisco (Round 1 *ding*ding*)

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 02:04:58PM -0600, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > I therefore favor those licenses that permit the most real freedom. And from
> > my naive understanding, among them would be BSD and Public Domain (ala
> > SQLite).
>
> I guess I can jump in here, now that I'm back in town.
>
> BSD has often been equated to a license to steal, and in fact Microsoft
> "stole" the BSD networking stack for NT4. The license allows no actual
> stealing, but it comes pretty close. Sure, you can argue otherwise, but if you

There must be some value to the project if large, successful projects use it...the BSD License's namesake, included (i.e., FreeBSD). For me, the license doesn't try to manipulate me into aiding some larger agenda being pushed by some self-appointed guru. I reject being a party to this much more vehemently that I reject the notion of some company using my code snippets.

> write code, anyone can take it and do what they want with it, and they owe you
> little-to-nothing in return. Money isn't the currency in question... their
> changes are theirs, and you can't use their modifications, unless they decide
> to be nice to you. They can change the license AFAIK, or at least that's what
> Microsoft did, unless I'm sorely mistaken.

I am okay with this. Besides, nothing I write is going to be included in anything, so I don't care. Also, asking for a little bit of credit is probably going to go over much better than asking for a commercial software entity to make their bread and butter free for the taking because they used some crappy free code.

>
> I am definitely a believer in the GPL, by the way (version 2, at least). I can
> see Jeremy's point, and apparently I've forgotten his back story, but I'm no
> fan of anything except GPL-licensed code. Anyhow, if you don't like the terms
> a particular application is released under, there's always freshmeat.

Indeed....

Brett

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