Effectiveness of GPL vs. BSD (was Re: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias))

Matt Seitz <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:15:39 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
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"Roger Fujii" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm still on
> > the fence on this one.  Is the BSD license is ultimately more effective?
> 
> Depends on how one defines "effective".  

In this case, we were using "effective" in the context of "Which license is
more effective in making more and better source code available to the public?".
 In other words, is the GPL's mandatory code sharing counterproductive?  Does
the fact that BSD allows commercial development encourage more developers to
use it and in turn to contribute code back to BSD projects?


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Sincerely,
Matt Seitz

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