Re: Debian FreeBSD
Elie Rosenblum <fnord@jurai.net> writes:
> And thus spake John Goerzen, on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:33:38AM -0500:
> > The same as for using FreeBSD itself: it's got a nasty BSD license.
>
> Er, the BSD license is still DFSG free, last I checked. And many of
> the BSD zealots have a somewhat good argument that the BSD license
> is less restrictive and more open than GPL.
No, that argument holds no water. GPL preserves greater net freedom.
BSD gives people the freedom to take freedom away. I don't like that,
and it results in less net freedom. Witness BSDI, SunOS, etc, etc.
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John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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