-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 May 2007 11:31, Anant Narayanan wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Is there any other way that the BSD is better for > > developers than the GPL is? > > Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
The GPL allows bundling with non-GPL or GPL-incompatible or whatever licensed software. It only prevents you from linking with non-GPL software. > software licensed under the so-called "GPL-incompatible" licenses; > something that isn't possible in the GPL (the LGPL was created just > to grant this extra "freedom" to the developers, so the BSD and LGPL > are equivalent in this regard) Not really, you can't take a piece of LGPL code, modify it and distribute the binaries without offering the source, while you can do that with BSD. BSD and LGPL are quite different. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPt7NyWjQ78xo0X8RAhV+AJ0cniynL3EFoQcI0L2PiTgnhskYJgCeKPYQ ca5EUNsNIrPXjUwfmkR0zuE= =HbFE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
