GPL vs BSD Licence

[Miguel Mendez]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:36:42 -0700
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:

Guys,

> 95% of the GPL advocates out there don't know the first damn thing
> about the GPL and undoubtedly have never completely read through
> the thing, MUCH LESS have read the supporting philosophy and writing
> around it.  I see GPL bigots ALL THE TIME arguing about how great
> GPL code is and how the GPL is so all fired wonderful because of this
> and that which isn't even IN the damn license!!!

I don't know if you're aware of this, but this kind is *useless*
discussion has been going on on the mailing lists for *years*. Check
groups.google.com and you'll see that everything you might want to add
about GPL vs BSD has already been said a hundred times. John Dyson
posted a lot about it, then Brett Glass did for a while, and now you.

If the time wasted on these rants had gone into writing software we'd
have a 100% BSDL system today. My very humble suggestion is that you
please take this somewhere else. I've never seen a GPL advocate 'see the
light' and start licensing his software under the BSD license after
having a conversation with a BSD 'zealot', or vice versa.

/me goes back to lurking...

Cheers,
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	Miguel Mendez <flynn at energyhq.es.eu.org>
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