On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lets start from basics, from free software definition > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > * The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). > * The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do > what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for > this. > * The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor > (freedom 2). > * The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others > (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to > benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for > this. > > and BSD license, > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php > > Read both of this together and see if it violates fourth freedom (or freedom > 3, if you start counting from 0). >
Now Please Read this taken from http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118861134304239&w=2 ============================================== - If you wish for everyone to remain friends, you should give code back. That means (at some ethical or friendliness level) you probably do not want to put a GPL at the top of a BSD or ISC file, because you would be telling the people who wrote the BSD or ISC file: "Thanks for what you wrote, but this is a one-way street, you give us code, and we take it, we give you you nothing back. screw off." In either case, I think a valuable lessons has been taught us here in the BSD world -- there are many many GPL loving people who are going to try to find any way to not give back and share (I will mention one name: Luis Rodriguez has been a fanatic pushing us for dual licensed, and I feel he is to blame for this particular problem). Many of those same people have been saying for years that BSD code can be stolen, and that is why people should GPL their code. Well, the lesson they have really taught us is that they consider the GPL their best tool to take from us! GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope -- the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time. But once the code is GPL'd, we cannot get it back. Ironic. I hope some people in the GPL community will give that some thought. Your license may benefit you, but you could lose friends you need. The GPL users have an opportunity to 'develop community', to keep an ethic of sharing alive. If the Linux developers wrap GPL's around things we worked very hard on, it will definately not be viewed as community development. Thank you for thinking about this. ============================================= So GPL is ALL take and NO give back which is exactly what Propreitry Licences do too. But at least Propreitry people write their own code and Don't Steal un lawfully from others! Think about it without being a slave to RMS. RMS is quite irrelevant and even contrary to Software Freedom these days. Quite impractical! Ask him why he does not use browser and gets websites through 'wget'! Disuse is not the solution for misuse!!! --Siju --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
