From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: hughett@chaplin.med.upenn.edu (Paul Hughett) Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/29 Message-ID: <7g9v1i$vev$3@netnews.upenn.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472334945 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <1rlV2.97$jw4.11389@burlma1-snr2> <7g5cb2$bjn$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <7g7o6d$lrj$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Organization: University of Pennsylvania Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lynn Winebarger (owinebar@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : In article , : Barry Margolin wrote: : > : >You can use other licenses than the GPL, but they have to be compatible -- : >they can't impose additional restrictions, but they can give additional : >freedoms. : > : Just curious - what more freedoms could they give? The freedom to use the code in a proprietary product for which the source is not revealed. The BSD and MIT X licenses provide this freedom and are preferred by some developers for that reason. There is a periodic flamewar in this group as to which license is better or more moral. Paul Hughett