Good resources for BSDL vs. GPL?

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 02:10:43 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Does anyone have a good resource for an objective discussion of GPL vs.
> BSDL? The upstream for one of the ports I maintain is considering
> switching licenses, and I'd like to present some non-inflammatory facts
> for him to consider.
>
> Please cc me on replies, since I'm not subscribed to this list.
>
> Doug
>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licenses
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licenses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_licenses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_licenses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Copyright_licenses


http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/06/23/1313224/featuregpl-vs-bsd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
http://www.freebsdnews.net/2008/07/18/bsd-license-vs-gpl-license/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html
http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2007/12/15/gpl-vs-bsd-a-matter-of-sustainability/
http://tips.developersvoice.com/bsd-or-gpl-choosing-an-open-source-license.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
http://whimsical.nu/2011/01/25/trying-to-choose-between-gpl-and-bsd-licensing/

If you search the following phrase in Internet you may find more links :

bsd license vs gpl license



Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk


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