Re: [TCLUG:17728] Motif has gone opensource!

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

> This is exaclty the point of the BSD license.  If I write some code and I
GPL
> it, it's not "free" because Big Company X can't use it "freely" in their
proprietary program.  It's kind of a paradox: The GPL doesn't let you make
your code
> free as it limits people to having to keep it free.  Make sense?  Maybe
not,
> but that's what I think.  IMHO, "Free" means no strings attached.  Every
license
> _except_ the BSD license have such strings.

BSD requires an attached BSD copyright with all derived code.


Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com