Re: bsd license question

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Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

> The GNU goal is make available source code that anyone can use for any
> purpose EXCEPT to lock it up, and then extend and distribute
> it. 
> 
> The BSD license promotes wide use of the software, including
> commercial applications.  It carries the risk that the core team can
> be bought out and the project taken private, thereby cutting out the
> users and even those original developers who weren't 'invited' or who
> chose not to go private.

I really don't understand this view...

I write a program. I release the program under a GPL license, so no one 
else can develop on the code and then close their modifications up and 
sell it as a binary only version and make lots of money. Their 
modfications and my original app remain public and "open" and we're all 
happy.

Now I write another program, I release it under a BSD license, and 
someone grabs it up, modifies it, and decides they want to close it up 
and label it and sell it for $1000 dollars. Is not my original release 
still available to the public at large, under the original BSD license? 
Why is it thought that mongers can take the code and rob the rest of it?

Point in case is Microsoft's Unix tools for Windows. OpenBSD tools, 
modified to run on Windows, closed up and wrapped neatly in a EULA, yet 
we still have OpenBSD.

DS