Yes. The BSD license on FreeBSD has allowed Apple to make MacOS X a completely proprietary product. The BSD license allows you to take and never release your mods. It has very little to do with money, IMO.
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Nir Aides <n...@winpdb.org> writes: > >> I take "...running off with the good stuff and selling it for profit" to >> mean "creating derivative work and commercializing it as proprietary code" >> which you can not do with GPL licensed code. > > It's the “proprietary“ which is the distinguishing criterion there. The > “selling” and “commercial” is totally orthogonal to that. > > That's the point: selling, and commercial activity in general, is > explicitly encouraged and permission granted by the GPL. Too many people > speak as though it were otherwise. To those who do: Please stop. > > -- > \ “Following fashion and the status quo is easy. Thinking about | > `\ your users' lives and creating something practical is much | > _o__) harder.” —Ryan Singer, 2008-07-09 | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ldlandis%40gmail.com > -- --- NOTE: If it is important CALL ME - I may miss email, which I do NOT normally check on weekends nor on a regular basis during any other day. --- LD Landis - N0YRQ - de la tierra del encanto 3960 Schooner Loop, Las Cruces, NM 88012 575-448-1763 N32 21'48.28" W106 46'5.80" _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
