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

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/16/08 00:25, Jeremy Sliwinski (mailing list account) wrote:
> >Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> >>What you've attempted to do here is make the BSD into something it
> >>isn't. In fact, if you look at how Sun uses the GPL to license Java or
> >>how MySQL uses the GPL to license their database, you'll see that they
> >>are doing exactly what you want.
> >
> >Obviously it isn't something the BSD isn't, rather it is intended to fix
> >the issues with the BSD license and code theft. It is a better license
>
> Why do people keep on mentioning "theft" in the same sentence as the
> BSDL, when it specifically *allows* companies to take the code and
> turn it into a close-source product.

Yup.

>
> (In fact, I contend that the BSDL encouraging market differentiation
> was the proximate cause of the Unix Wars, and that companies like
> IBM & DEC/HP learned that lesson, which is why they are so strongly
> backing the GPL'd Linux kernel.)

That makes a lot of sense.

Brett

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