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So you're saying that for example the FreeBSD people are money oriented because they prefer a more permissive license over the GPL?
by skrause 11y ago
So you're saying that for example the FreeBSD people are money oriented because they prefer a more permissive license over the GPL?
- ForHackernews 11y agoThe people here aren't the FreeBSD team--they're wannabe startup founders who'd like to take BSD-licensed code and sell it.
- anon1385 11y agoPerhaps, but the GPL licensing of this code isn't a barrier to them doing that, since most of them will be running web services that can use GPL code freely without having to release the rest of their code. If it was AGPL then maybe you would have a point. The issue in this case is that image formats need widespread support to take off, and picking a license that is incompatible with 4/5 major browsers ensures that won't ever happen.