Is Fedora *really* Free?

J.Moore listreader1 at cullmail.com
Thu Oct 19 03:24:23 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 00:14 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 23:51, J.Moore wrote:
> 
> > > Some do think like you do, until they are "backstabbed" and then come
> > > back to the GPL or LGPL (like WINE, for instance). 
> > 
> > I've had a round or two with the wankers - you have to develop an
> > attitude to take the bad with the good. And survival demands that you
> > not let the bastards get you down  :)
> 
> Using a *BSD style license means you explicitly don't care
> how your code is used.  In that scenario, how can anything
> be bad - except perhaps someone rewriting it badly because
> they don't know a good free version exists?

Hmmm... I wouldn't say "don't care", I think you can care and still
support *BSD-style licensing.




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