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Re: bsd license question



On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:20:26 +0100, Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 

what is ur definition of Freedom then? I would like to know about it
(would at least help me to understand ur statement better).

> 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.
> 

could u explain that as well if u dont mind?

-jf