On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> I hope you can understand why developers of Free Software find this
> irrating. They want to be able to take our hard work and bundle it with
> their work and distribute it for money. However, they do not want us to
> be able to bundle their work with our work and distribute it for money?
That makes good sense to developers of GPL (and other licenses
discouraging closed source derivatives) licensed code.
But to developers who use the BSD (or Apache or MIT or X11 or XFree86)
license it doesn't matter much, because their licensing allows products to
be closed up and made proprietary (commonly for money). So they have the
understanding that someone can take their good work.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/
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