Is Fedora *really* Free?
J.Moore
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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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