>-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:59 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: openssl-dev@openssl.org; Bob Beck >Subject: Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future? > > >* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-16 13:51]: >> >> Just scrap use of the GPL license and use the BSD license on your >> non-commercial offering, it's fully compatible and a much >better license >> in any case than the GPL. >> > It depends on your point of view and goals. - if your goals >are to ensure your code is not easily usable in a corporate environment, >then you want the GPL. If you want companies to be able to develop >products based on your code and sell them withough giving away source >then you want a BSD type license. >
Why on earth would a company that uses BSD code fork it when they can get you, the original developer, to maintain it for free? The biggest lie out of the GPL camp is that the BSD license lets companies "steal" software. In reality, when a company uses BSD software they quickly find out that if they add a bunch of extra stuff to it and -don't- make the source available, that when development of the BSD source continues to move onward, that it creates a nightmare of trying to integrate "their" changes to the ongoing BSD software. The biggest software thief on the face of the Earth is Microsoft and they -LIKE- the BSD license, they even released a reference of c# coded for FreeBSD under the BSD license. However they don't use BSD code in their own stuff for the very reason I just cited - they don't want to share -their- code and they know that it isn't maintainable to modify BSD code and not feed the changes back to the common source tree. You need to let reality puncture the RMS pipedream you've been sucking down with regards to the BSD license compared to the GPL. Anyone who writes and sings a theme song for a software license is certifyable. The OpenSSL license is just as subject to the same issues here as BSD, and you want to use it - yet apparently the license that's good enough for it isn't good enough for your own stuff? Sounds a bit like hipocracy to me. Ted ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
