nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
Re: Re[2]: Licensing
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 19:56:35 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905122043170.1171-100000@hyperspace>
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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"
We were joking... Notice the smiley face?
> 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.
Got any examples of the latter? I know there was the Be drivers thing, but
that was resolved quickly and reasonably once someone pointed out to them
that they were breaking the terms of the GPL.
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