----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cowboy" <c...@cwf1.com>
> So they ( sorta ) say, but FSF claims copyright on anything licensed > GPL. > I have a bit of a problem with that meself, regardless of their > implied motivation. Which is because, as many do, you misunderstand it. :-) The GNU project requires copyright assignment to FSF *on projects which are under its umbrella*. Merely applying the GPL to your code does not by any means place it's ownership under control of the FSF... as I think Fred can testify; Rivendell itself is GPL, is it not? > I prefer to share my stuff with whomever I choose, without > the restrictions of GPL. And the GPL does not prohibit that. What the GPL does is *keep commercial actors from stealing your code (ie: work) and stuffing inside their closed commercial product. If you're not concerned about that, by all means release code under BSD; the only GPL advocates who disdain that are RMS himself and... nobody; nobody else disdains that. :-) > > It's not at all about more or less "free". > > It is absolutely all about free, or not free. > GPL takes away your rights, by claiming copyright themselves, > then grants you back a limited subset of the rights you surrender. Nope. Go re-read it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
