Nathan Saper wrote:
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> By "freedom," I mean "the freedom to do whatever the hell you want to
> do with the software." No matter how you look at it, the GPL puts
> more restrictions on the developer than BSD does. This isn't to say
> that BSD is better. I happen to prefer the GPL, largely due to the
> reasons you stated above. But I think it would be hard to argue that
> the developer has more freedom with GPL than he/she does with BSD. In
> a way, it's like Marxism vs. capitalism (GPL being Marxism, BSD being
> capitalism): BSD allows for more individual freedom in the short term,
> but the GPL allows for collective advancement, in the end making everyone free.
>
> Kinda makes you wonder why we have a capitalistic economy and a
> Marxist software development system. . . .
My argument for that is that just because a country allows you to murder
other people does not make that country more free than one that has laws
governing that.
also I would say the GPL is there to protect the freedom of the Code while
the BSD style licenses are they to protect the Coder.
Bill Warner
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