On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:47:15 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: >> I can only say that I love BSD licenses. I know many people can be >> anger by this but I find that BSD licences are the best exponent for >> the true and unconditional user freedom. > > I agree with Camaleón. Not to end 2010 with a flame war, but this is the > one thing that irritates me most about the FSF. They advocate free > software, which is a laudable goal, but they seem to only acknowledge it > *if* you conform to their definition of free. By definition, if a user > chooses to, they should be *free* to use commercial software and be as > equally accepted as someone who opts not to have any binary blobs on > their system. In their own way, Stallman and the FSF are trying to > accomplish lock-in as much as the vendors...
Well, I don't see any strong contradictions in BSD licences (tagged as "new/modified") and the FSF... in fact the Modified BSD licencse it is listed in their site and marked as "GPL compatible": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses So we (BSD and FSF lovers) can all be happy :-) In brief, I think non-copyleft licences are more user-oriented than gpl- ed ones (which put the "full powers" on developer's hand). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.31.12.58...@gmail.com
