On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Perhaps, but they should consider that licenses like perl, X > and apache's are free in even more ways. Perhaps, but the GPL is excellent in that it *enforces* the Freedoms, and actively prevents people from changing it just a little and making that new product proprietary. In effect, it *guarantees* that *anyone* who gets a copy of the program *must* have the freedoms to study, modify, and/or redistribute the program under these same conditions. The MIT/X11 and revised BSD licenses (along with other similar licenses) are usually for the benefit of the developers (essentially, anything done with such code is legal so long as copyright notices and such are left intact); whereas the GPL in fact is for the distinct benefits of the end-users (who could be, potentially, developers too). -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xDA3634D7 Fingerprint: 0629 F604 3C14 937E F088 E5E9 B3CB 48EC DA36 34D7
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