Re: Charging the Charger
[email protected] (David N. Welton) 14 Apr 2005 08:20:51 +0200
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Taran Rampersad <[email protected]> writes: > That's an arguable description of freedom, since the freedom you > describe is for a redistributor to lock code away - which is a > violation of the GPL, and if Stallman signed onto that, I'd love to > know it. That's the problem with the old BSD license, if you > recall... and why it's not considered a Free License. The problem with that license was the so called "advertising clause". You are still quite free to take BSD code and make proprietary derivatives from it. -- David N. Welton - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting - http://www.dedasys.com/