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Re: [LUG] What is the purpose of free software ?

 

On Monday 29 January 2007 16:54, Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
>
> The OpenBSD project, at least, uses a BSD-type licence for this very
> reason - they'd prefer that proprietary software used their code (which
> is designed with an emphasis on security) rather than writing their own,
> probably buggier, implementation of whatever.
But you can still write code that uses (l)GPL stuff that is proprietary.
You can build proprietary software 'on' (l)gpl but not 'from' - just like M$ 
software. 
BSD gives you your cake and you get to eat others cake as well.
Tom te tom te tom


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