Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:38:37 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD licence vs GPL Message-ID: <3A96A01D.492D82FD@softweyr.com> References: <004601c09cab$7750d260$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3A955578.CB84F89C@acuson.com>
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David Johnson wrote:
>
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> > > What if someone came along and created a closed source derivative of my
> > > code and made a million bucks off of it? I would be pissed. But it
> >
> > Why? They undoubtedly would be first in line wanting to hire you - who
> > better to work on the source for them than the one who wrote it! :-)
>
> Well then! That would evaporate my pissiness in short order!
>
> The point I was trying to make is that 99% of life is people doing what
> you don't want them to do. At some point you have to stop trying to mold
> the world into your own image and start learning to live with it.
Right. The claims of the GPL hordes about "stealing" BSD-licensed code is
just ludicrous, you cannot steal something that is freely given away. If
you don't want to freely give away your code, don't use the BSD license.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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