Re: Debian FreeBSD
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes:
> > I suspect John was talking about the second (he's speaking about /a/ nasty
> > BSD license, not /the/ nasty BSD license).
> >
> > Many people prefer BSD-sans-ad-clause to the old BSD license.
>
> Based on my thousands of arguments with John on this very subject many
> many times over, I would say that his problem with the BSD is the former
> as he also considers the X license to be "nasty" because it can be
> exploited.
Precisely. While I am no big fan of the advertising clause, I view it
as far less insidious than the vulnerability to being adopted and made
non-free.
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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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