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

--- Roland <[email protected]> wrote:
> The example FreeBSD x Linux show that GPL products can have more success 
> than BSDL.

You are right, that is good evidence in favor of GPL over BSD (and rather
obvious, I'm embarassed I didn't think of that comparison).  Of course, RMS
argues that the Linux kernel isn't 100% pure GPL because of loadable kernel
modules and binary firmware compatability modules.  So one could argue that
Linux is proof that a GPL/BSD hybrid is more effective than either pure GPL
(Hurd) or BSD (FreeBSD).  However, I still think this is strong evidence of GPL
being a more effective license.


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Sincerely,
Matt Seitz

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