Re: [OT] Re: microsoft.com -> NetBSD
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:47:15 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
>> I can only say that I love BSD licenses. I know many people can be
>> anger by this but I find that BSD licences are the best exponent for
>> the true and unconditional user freedom.
>
> I agree with Camaleón. Not to end 2010 with a flame war, but this is the
> one thing that irritates me most about the FSF. They advocate free
> software, which is a laudable goal, but they seem to only acknowledge it
> *if* you conform to their definition of free. By definition, if a user
> chooses to, they should be *free* to use commercial software and be as
> equally accepted as someone who opts not to have any binary blobs on
> their system. In their own way, Stallman and the FSF are trying to
> accomplish lock-in as much as the vendors...
Well, I don't see any strong contradictions in BSD licences (tagged as
"new/modified") and the FSF... in fact the Modified BSD licencse it is
listed in their site and marked as "GPL compatible":
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
So we (BSD and FSF lovers) can all be happy :-)
In brief, I think non-copyleft licences are more user-oriented than gpl-
ed ones (which put the "full powers" on developer's hand).
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
Reply to: