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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:08:09 +0000 james kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:27 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > Such people view the GPL as > > *very* constrictive because they want to make free software > > proprietary > > - not caring that this makes it even more constricted. > You mean they want to take something which is a free gift, repackage > it and sell it with very little work on their part - parasitical. Exactly - this, IMHO, is the problem with code licenced under the BSD licence - it encourages the parasitic whilst impairing interoperability. Proprietary developers can simply tweak a few critical lines to change it to their interpretations and assumptions and release it under a EULA or even non-disclosure agreement. The changes are not published so those who use the original BSD code do not get the same results from the proprietary version of the same original code! Rather than helping interoperability by requiring modifications to be released under the same licence as the original (thereby allowing the one codebase to operate with both proprietary and free implementations), the BSD licence actively works against interoperability by failing to take account of what is "normal" practice for proprietary development - "sod the standard, we do it our way". -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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