Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:40:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Jon Portnoy <> | Subject | Re: GPL and Nvidia |
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Freedom is something that has to be perpetuated and guaranteed, which is what the GPL does. The BSD approach is this: "We're offering you this free (as in freedom) software which you can then use and redistribute as proprietary software as long as we get credit."
This is like drawing up a constitution for a new country that says "We give you these rights and the power to totally eliminate them."
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> A "freedom" banner in one hand and a thick license document in the other > beginning "GPL: Thou shall not...", and a fat, smiling lawyer behind you. > > Makes me glad to be alive ;) > > The BSD license sounds great, but I bet mine's shorter :) > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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