Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Today there are many other free software licenses, some of them more liberal
like MIT, Apache, and CopyLeft.  But all of them gained inspiration and
credibility from the foundation established by the GPL, and its requirements
for the free sharing of knowledge.

The BSD licenses, though, predate the first GPL by at least a year . . .

Good catch, and given the large and complex history of software there are likely others.

So parsing that sentence for correctness, it would have been more accurate to have written "But nearly all...."

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