On 12/10/06 14:18 +0530, Vihan Pandey wrote: > >No. I use enough BSD licensed software to know how the BSD community > >works. > >Given the popularity of web services, DRM and closed hardware (how many > >people > >here use nvidia's drivers?), I don't really the GPLv2 as giving a > >specific advantage to end users. The one way to get around the > >requirements for distributing source is not to distribute it at all, but > >only provide public APIs (or protocols) to allow access to your code. > > > We NEED to distribute source, just giving away API's sets a bad precedence > for the project. If its an issue of source distribution, have you looked at > Affero GPL ? > Have you seen GPLv3? I am pointing out a specific deficiency in GPL v2, which is being fixed in v3. Have you ever seen me claim that the GPL is a bad license?
> Please note that I have no issues with commercialising code. Nor does > >the FSF. Both of us have issues with closing source for the second level > >of users. The _sole_ reason I would be using the BSD license would be > >to keep the GNU zealots away. > > > That's not really the right way to go. You have every right to criticize > anyone but releasing software under BSD style license(for freedom) just > because you disagree with/dislike GNU and what it stands for set's a bad > precedent. Moreover you can say what you want, but history is not going to > change because of that. We owe FSF/GNU for starting this value system, lets > not forget that. For whenever man forgets freedom or descends into > callousness, the end result is a tyrannical society which in the end ends up > destroying itself, only to go back to the value system. > > And should I not then give equal credit to every project which has > >contributed to my Linux system? > > > Does that justify calling it "Linux" alone ? If you are are truely > advocating giving credit to everyone call it > GNU/Linux/Apache/_all_other_stuff_you_may_be_using > That's a bit too long. I just say Linux. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
