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,a2c7f6cbdb72aa16 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: "proprietary", was Re: ada on linux Date: 2000/06/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 631163859 References: <8hf5uh$6nf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 960186786 206.170.2.158 (Sun, 04 Jun 2000 23:33:06 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 23:33:06 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >Those people would of course prefer a BSD like license to >the GPL license, because then they can use the software in >their proprietary products. If the software is GPLed, it can be used in "Those people"'s proprietary product simply by agreement of the copyright holder, since he can release his software under different licenses to different people. So the only difference is that with BSD "Those people" do not need permission of the copyright holder. While legal, adding significant value to one's proprietary product by copying/including something BSDed, without its author's permission, is usually considered unethical. So saying that all people who object to the GPL would prefer the BSD like license because then they would be able to use the software, without it's author's permission, in their proprietary products, is saying that all people who object to the GPL do so because they wish to engage in that kind of unethical behavior. That is false. There are many people who are not in fact interested in stealing other people's software, but still believe the GPL and its associated rhetoric very often have very negative consequences for both developers and users.