> Now you've started a fire. The GPL is designed to create a
> free software community by protecting code from those who do 
> not want it to be free.
> 
> BSD is exactly the opposite of free. It's apathy. BSD
> vultures can take code away from the BSD community, modify 
> it, and contribute nothing back to the community with 
> impunity. The ability creates fractured code bases that are 
> incompatible with each other where one is free and the other 
> proprietary. 

What's the relevance of both? Both GPL and BSD licenses (and licenses
for Windows, Java, etc) are created by the people who owned the
software, so whatever their motives: they created the licenses that
fitted their motives. Big cheers for the free world! Free of course
implies a (limited) freedom to do what you would have liked them not to
do - but in return you get the freedom to do what you like to do (within
the same limitations). 


Wouter van Ooijen

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