Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:14:18 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@home.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <XFMail.010220231418.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <046d01c09bd0$1e8bdfc0$0300a8c0@wilma>
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On 21-Feb-01 Dennis Jun wrote: > Hello all! > > A Linux friend of mine and I were chatting bout the BSD licence versus the > GPL. He was asking me how *BSD developers felt about that their code could > (and has) being used by commercial companies and in turn becomes closed in > the end. That is, you don't know if your code will stay open or not. He > asked doesn't that bother BSD developers? I thought this was a very > interesting question. I couldn't give him a really good answer since I'm > not a programmer. So I wanted to ask some people who do program and > contribute to BSD what their thoughts on this is. Does it bother you? Is > it even an issue? Much thanx in advance. Erm, just because a company uses a copy of my code in their closed source program doesn't mean that the copy of the code I have given away magically disappears. Once it is open, it is always open. However, I am not of the opinion that closed-source software is this evil thing we all need to hate and attempt to destroy, so I have no problem with any code I release being used in either open or closed source projects. If I'm giving it away, I'm giving it away. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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