NetBSD is the oldest and least-used of the three major BSD derivatives. David Chisnall takes a look at how it's survived for so long and where it's going in preparation for the next release.
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So if someone gives you code freely, and says you can do whatever you want with it if you also contribute back your changes, that's blood sucking.
They have every right to put thousands of conditions on their own code ... but stop being hypocrites and calling it free.
If I hand you a candy bar and say its free but tell you that you can only eat it between 5pm and 6pm, and when you are done with it you have to mail back the wrapper and a photo of your stool, it isn't a "free" candy bar. Its an unfree candy bar.
When it comes down to the core of the GPL is lying. You have a to lie to people to con them into using the GPL. The GPL is not about freedom at all. Its about conning people into joining a cult.
Edited 2006-10-08 17:30
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Bullshit.
Of course the GPL is free. It's free in the same sense that democracy is freedom. You can do whatever you want to, as long as you don't take those rights away from others.
The BSD-license is more akin to anarchy (not bad at all), where you can do anything, including limiting the freedom of others.
One could say they are both free, in two different ways.
One is protective of the freedom (as in democracy), while the other is unprotective (as in anarchy).
Which one is best to use depends on the situation.
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2005-07-06
blood sucking Vampire
So if someone gives you code freely, and says you can do whatever you want with it if you also contribute back your changes, that's blood sucking. Then, what would you call that if someone can take a freely given code stick his logo on it and sell it without contributing anything back ? I guess that would mean fair use to you. Well, many people believe that and that's why they use bsd-style licenses. And that's what you also should do, and stop complaining about GPL's this and that.