From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Date: 1 May 1993 10:56:12 -0400
I was just thinking about this earlier today...
In article <C6BJMo.Lvx@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
(Eric Youngdale) writes:
>
> Could someone explain why most people who write under the BSD
> copyright remain ambivalent about scenario 1, but find scenario 2 so
> objectionable?
Because someone taking completely free code and placing it under the
GPL appears to me to violate the GNU project's alleged principles; they
are taking code and putting a restrictive license on it, exactly the
way any of the Evil Software-Hoarding Companies would do, albeit with
(somewhat) different terms.
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