Here's a lucid article on the GPL groupthink attitude.
http://linux.dracony.org/2010/12/11/stop-linux-communism/
... 1) You can take a code of the BSD licensed software and make it your own. 2) You cannot appropriate the GPL licensed software (if so, you are punished). Here you see two different conceptions of what freedom is. The GPL license is the same thing as the communist Socialist Property Ownership Act, because you get equally punished in both cases (braking the GPL or the communist law). The BSD license is in compliance with the philosophy of FSF – you can run, copy, distribute, study, change, and improve the software (see my above note about groupthink – philosophy of BSD is in harmony with FSF, but not in total harmony) ...
How very true! Sincerely, RJack _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
