"The GNU General Public License is one of the most widely used software licenses - and, undoubtedly, the most misunderstood. Some of this misunderstanding comes from hostile propaganda, but some also comes from a lack of experience in licensing issues on the part of both lawyers and lay users, and the use of standard language in conventional end-user license agreements that are unthinkingly coupled with the GPL. In all cases, the confusion is frequently based on misreadings, rumors, secondhand accounts, and what is convenient to believe."
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Member since:2006-04-20
"Gadzooks that just makes me sick. Take your zeolosy (is that really a word?) to a soap box and leave the rest of the world to the people who want to work.
People do care in BSD camp. We want software to be adopted everywhere both in closed circles and open. Can't do that with GPL."
I believe the word is "zealotry". I prefer to use the phrase "ranting incomprehensible lunatic" in reference to the chap who rave endlessly in his/her fractured, mangled English about who knows what.
The GPL is a good license for some software projects, the BSD for others, and non-free licenses suit other projects better. It really is a matter for the liceser to decide.
Member since:2005-07-06
If I was insane , one of you nice people would have had me commited , and if I was wrong one of you brave people would have sued me. I am neither and you aint really nice or brave at all in reality.
No , The GPL is not a good license its THE ONLY license that as proven track record to work at making Free Software and Open Source a working reality.
BSD get closed and taken over.
Non-free license create interroperability problems , and I dont mean with the GPL. Its also create security problem that only the software vendor can fix.
BSD people dont care , if they really did , Apple and Microsoft would be seriously behind and playing catch up to BSD and GNU/Linux would not exist as there would have been no need for it.
You guys are on a serious fabulation trip that as no base on reality whatsoever.
What can I say you cant even read or understand proper english , its not an exercise in futility , because if I get only one BSD to wake up , this little insults of yours and my opposition to your lies will have been all worth it.
Member since:2005-07-06
Yes , the truth often does that to criminal too , they get sick upon hearing there sentencing ... I rather hope you get well , because unlike BSD who is dying on its own hubris , I dont wish for human using it to follow in suit and be a real zealot and having killed you for my idea.
Your right the GPL dont allow for software developper to close the software , thats why its good and BSD is really bad for Open Source and Free Software.
After 35 year of bulshit that dont work you might get a clue , that those you defend , are the same one not contributing anything back to BSD but extremely profiting from it : Apple and Microsoft are full of BSD code.
We got more driver , hardware and company and proprietary company supporting GNU/Linux then you do with all the BSD ( Even including Apple) togheter.
All this because of your license , nothing else you got is not similar or directly LGPL.
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2006-03-29
Gadzooks that just makes me sick. Take your zeolosy (is that really a word?) to a soap box and leave the rest of the world to the people who want to work.
People do care in BSD camp. We want software to be adopted everywhere both in closed circles and open. Can't do that with GPL.