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

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:21, Roland wrote:

> At 09:15 AM 6/14/02 -0700, Matt Seitz wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> The example FreeBSD x Linux show that GPL products can have more
> success than BSDL.

This is a poor choice for a comparison.  The reason Linus made Linux
instead of going with BSD had to do with the lawsuit hanging over the
BSD codebase.

FreeBSD may have started before Linux, but it took only after the suit
was settled.

Sean
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