Re: bsd license question ..... GPL Violations..

[Francisco Valladolid <francisco@vmicrosistemas.com>]

Sancho2k.net Lists wrote:

> 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
>
>

I found this site about the GPL license.

http://www.gpl-violations.org

Best Regards.