"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:j7vb86$2ljc$1...@digitalmars.com... > It's the dual licensing thing I like about the GPL - you can > be about the freedom, while still keeping a money making opportunity. > > I also like how it makes a stand on the freedom issue, a strong one. > > > The BSD license is the one I loathe and despise. It puts an annoying > restriction on you, without gaining anything for the author. > > A proprietary license gets the author money. I respect that. > > The GPL gives the author his philosophy. I respect that. > > The Boost or zlib licenses say "whatever". I respect that. > > The BSD license says "whatever... but drop my name all over the place!" > > That annoys me.
That's the *OLD* "4-clause" BSD. That clause was recinded over a decade ago, resulting in the "3-clause" which says "don't use my name" (which is kinda weird...and it's even weirder that the 4-clause apperently said *both* "drop my name all over the place" *and* "don't use my name". Seriously, WTF?). But now there's also a "2-clause" one that removes that restriction too, rendering it equivalent to MIT: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php