On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:00:17PM -0600, David Douthitt scribbled:
> What was the original license of LRP? Presumably, not GNU since
> there is not a commercial distribution (Coyote).... or is it?
LRP is GPL. Coyote is a windows configuration program
distributed in binary format for money; coyote linux
is created by that program; there is also a shell
script from coyote that creates the same result, and
said script is opensource. Altogether, there is no
breach of GPL, as it's okay to charge to distribute
a GPL program, and it's okay to charge for a program
that configures a GPL program/whatever.
> So the MIT License isn't the most popular, but it has a lot of
I don't think I'd ever heard of it until you said it here.
> projects using it - including the very popular X11. The thing I like
> about it is that it permits commercial use and so on - it is LESS
> restrictive than the GPL. I've also liked the BSD License; with the
The GPL is not about being unrestricted; it's about being, and
staying, free. That means not allowing GPL software to be used
in a way that can remove any amount of freedom from it.
> new modification to the BSD License it apparently has become even
> better (no more advertizing clause). This license, too, has been
> described by FSF as "compatible with the GPL."
I've liked the bsd license better for most purposes for
quite a long time.
> Someone somewhere said that the new BSD license is equivalent to the
> MIT/X license.
>
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