[ale] More from Business Week

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Sun Feb 23 12:18:20 EST 2003


On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Marvin Dickens wrote:

> Not wanting to start a debate or flame war, but I prefer the BSD license over
> anything the FSF has issued in the way of a license. If the FSF was truly
> interested in producing 100% free software, the GPL would let anybody do
> anything they wanted to with the code. The way the GPL is put together,
> you can't do anything you want to with the code (Therefore, the software is
> not free). Ultimately, the FSF has the last word regarding GPL'ed code, not
> the user of GPL'ed code. Because of this, everything I have ever given
> away in the form of code, has had the BSD license attached: If I give it away,
> I give it away without any restrictions of any kind or type: You can do
> anything you want to with it and I don't care.

Agree 100%

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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