Re: bsd license question

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:25:05PM -0700, Sancho2k.net Lists wrote:
> The thing I don't understand is why the GPL stance is that this is a 
> terrible and bad thing. This same logic would work against their view of 
> freedom; I see the flaw in thinking that "if they have the code, we 
> can't have the code too." BSD seems more of "you can have the code, and 
> we still have the code, and you make your code into what you want, and 
> so do we, and we can go celebrate with a beer later because we all have 
> code."

Nope, the real GPL stance is that they really, really don't like any
kind of closed development, period.  Like any good cult, there's a
supposition hidden there, that any closed development will take away
a bit of you Freedom. Where Freedom doesn't really mean what you think
it does, because it actually means the right to look at source code freely.
Yeah right...

Now, some misguided clueless friends of the GPL have just enough sense
to figure out why this doesn't make a lot of sense, but they don't know
Copyright law.

Hence the fallacy that taking open source and closing it will kill the open
source.