Re: WineX and the AFPL

On Thu, 30 May 2002 12:05, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> On May 30, 2002 11:24 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> > Back to Wine. We doesn't really disagree on the goals, that is not
> > the problem. The means (the LGPL) is the problem. Please focus on
> > that instead of trying to sell the goal to people that already
> > mostly agree.
>
> It seems to me that the BSD advocates fall into 2 groups (or use 2 main
> arguments):
>   1) if you want to share and have fun, BSD is the way to go
>   2) the BSD license is actually better for the project.
>
> My message addressed the first group / line of reasoning.

The goal of GNU licenses is to make changes in law.  The goal of a BSD
license is to protect the author.  It is easy to see that BSD licenses
are designed to let the author have fun (remove worry).  GNU licenses
have their own agenda.

If you disagree, you should read up on the philosophy concerning GNU
(http://www.gnu.org).  It is stated in many different papers there why
GNU licenses were created.

> As for 2), I don't see how you can still maintain it is true, after
> it's been proven time and again that it's not.  You can pretend to
> live in a different world (and certainly many people do, may atimes
> helped by various substances), but I'm afraid that does not change the
> cold reality that most of us live in :).

I have seen no proof showing BSD is worse for a project nor its
sub-projects (grandchildren).

Sean
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