On Friday 29 March 2013, Cowboy wrote: > On Friday 29 March 2013 02:40:06 pm al davis wrote: > > But you can sue the students who wrote the code. > > No, both the BSD and MIT licenses specifically disclaim in > that regard.
No. The license says nothing about anyone else. > Most authors of GPL licensed stuff really don't understand > exactly what the GPL does, and doesn't do. Many do understand. Please give them credit. > Oracle does, as do MIT and the University of California, as > well as some others. With regard to that, I said: >>>The BSD license is all about technology transfer, encouraging >>>the creation of proprietary derivative works. That's exactly what the University wants. > > GPL is all about sharing among peers, and protection of the > > rights of everyone (including the authors) to use and > > share. > > So they ( sorta ) say, but FSF claims copyright on anything > licensed GPL. Not so. > I have a bit of a problem with that meself, > regardless of their implied motivation. I would too, if it were so, but it isn't. > ( I've more problems with RMS, but this is not the place ) > It's not about protecting everyone, but much more about > subverting the rights of the enemy classes, and I have > issues with that, and the whole manifesto approach. Enemy classes == those who want to steal my code and make it proprietary. > I prefer to share my stuff with whomever I choose, without > the restrictions of GPL. You have that right. Please give the same courtesy to those who make a different choice than you. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
