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

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

Maybe I'm confused, but isn't the only "license" that is truly
free is making your program and its source Public Domain?

As far as I can tell, the BSD license is more free, but for some
reason people who claim to be for as much freedom as you can
get would rather have their software GPLed, and not BSDed.

Nick





veldy@veldy.net, on 05/17/2000 04:06:50 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17728] Motif has gone opensource!


> 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



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