nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
Re: Re[2]: Licensing
From:
Warner Losh ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 19:49:44 -0000
Message-Id: <199905121944.NAA23158@harmony.village.org>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905121938420.1171-100000@hyperspace> Alex Holden writes:
: Hahaha, nice summary of BSD and GPL philosophies :) I am starting to think
: that we'll have to homebrew "Yet Another License" of our own, due to the
: rather unusual situation we're in...
Actually the BSD summary would be more like "Here's the code, do
whatever you want with it" while GNU would be "Here's the code, we'll
do everything we can to make you release all software that comes
within linking distance of this code"
In actual practice, these two methods result in approximately the same
amount of code being shared back with the original authors. People in
the BSD realm do so because they want to, but some people that use GNU
software ignore the license when it suits them.
Warner
