From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751149AbWBBSM0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:12:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751163AbWBBSM0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:12:26 -0500 Received: from perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.31]:26055 "EHLO perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751149AbWBBSMZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:12:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:12:24 -0500 To: Pierre Ossman Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Karim Yaghmour , Filip Brcic , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Thomas Horsten , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders Message-ID: <20060202181224.GA2480@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <200601302301.04582.brcha@users.sourceforge.net> <43E0E282.1000908@opersys.com> <43E1C55A.7090801@drzeus.cx> <1138891081.9861.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43E23C79.8050606@drzeus.cx> <43E24767.1090708@drzeus.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43E24767.1090708@drzeus.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:54:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Then I have to ask, why GPL and not a BSD license? GPL is after all, > forcing our beliefs onto anyone who wishes to benefit from our work. The GPL enforced the view on free software, the BSD license does not. The BSD license lets you do whatever you want pretty much. If you want to make money from linux, you can do so by being better than other people at solving problems and making enhancements. With BSD all it takes is keeping secrets. So if you are very good at what you do, you will be perfectly happy dealing with GPL code and making money writing enhancements for people, while if you aren't very good, you could just go write some software using BSD licensed code and sell that, preferably taking out a software patent while you are at it to prevent someone else from writing another implementation. Len Sorensen