Of course you wouldn't bother to read this article: http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd
Since it's polite, to point and factual. Instead of your rant which contains insults and lies. And no, I'm not a GPL fanboy, I license most of my stuff under the BSD license, but I do have respect for the work and opinions of others. chefren wrote: > On 10/5/06 5:05 AM, Travers Buda wrote: > > Thats not very smart of intel, considering that OpenBSD is writing the > > best drivers for them with a BSD liscense for FREE! > > In general Intel is definitely one of the smartest companies in this > world, I don't like them that much personally but highly respect them > for almost all their work. You can scream in this small church about > license details but at this moment the world sees no difference > between varieties of open source. Even basic "open source" is a very > big step for companies and it's very hard to explain differences > between GPL and BSD and the clue behind the enormous success of > OpenSSH. Most GPL fans think they understand the philosophies and > differences between GPL and BSD and strongly tend to ignore the basic > results of the licenses, they think "Linux is bigger than FreeBSD so > GPL is better than BSD"). If I try to explain that only BSD is "no > strings attached" they say "but the BSD license requires you to copy > the name of the authoring person only copy left is without any > strings. And there I have to explain that in most civil countries > =everything is copyrighted= even for many years after the passing away > of the authoring person so its basically the law that requires some > sign that proves it's copy-left and only the author can claim. If the > claim is left, even after years someone might rightfully claim and ask > for real money if you use "unsigned" code. > > This is all far to complicated for 99% of the people in this world. > > The argument against GPL that works best for me during "discussions" > about it is that GPL is BSD with Digital Rights Management. Even GPL > zealots have an extremely bad feeling while hearing "DRM", again and > again funny to see their faces while it sinks in. # Han
