On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:09:08PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:32:35 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Your licence puts you in the position that you always depend on the
> > goodwill of the persons from whom you want to get code back.
>
> The BSD license promotes goodwill.
>
> The GPL license promotes and enforces viral control. How hypocritical that
> the Linux community fights so hard against the "evils" of corporate greed,
> while it has no qualms about accepting their NDAs, binary blobs, and
> non-redistributable drivers. It will bend over backwards for closed-source
> vendors, but won't extend the olive branch to Free Software brethren.
Your accusation the Linux community had no problems with "binary blobs
and non-redistributable drivers" is quite far away from the truth.
> Jason Dixon
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Adrian
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