* On 2010 30 Dec 12:50 -0600, 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...
Sorry, but as a contributor to a small Free Software project licensed under GPL and LGPL, I respectfully disagree. Much has been provided to me because of the GPL and I believe that my contributions warrant the same opportunity by others. I do not want any of my contributions taken proprietary by *any* entity for *any* reason. I also do not see the GPL as lock-in, rather as lock-out. I do understand and respect why others would prefer to choose a BSD license. I just ask that others do the same for us who choose the GPL. HNY - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101231044558.ge21...@n0nb.us
