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Curious, why do you favor GPL over BSD as a user? You have all the same abilities with it, and a few additional ones too. The closed source forks for the BSD l

• wtbob 10y ago
  > Curious, why do you favor GPL over BSD as a user? In my case, because I know that any contributions I make will become part of the software commons and won't be taken proprietary.
  • problems 10y ago
    You can make your own GPL fork if you'd like. That's the nice part about BSD, you can relicense it exactly as you please.
• arca_vorago 10y ago
  "Curious, why do you favor GPL over BSD as a user?" Because BSD licenses are abused by the tivoization of devices far too often, and I think GPL(v3) is one of the few licenses that gets in the way of that. (because to be fair, GPL1/2 were also abused in this way, but I think GPLv3 has fixed most of those loopholes) BSD style licenses are about freedom for the developer, not the user, whereas GPL style licenses are about freedom for the user. All devs are also users, but not all users are devs, therefor GPL licenses are for freedom for a greater number of people as well. (Can you tell I think RMS is/was right?) Also, you can theoritcally license BSD stuff under GPL if you fork it and make the new code contribs GPL, but enforcing it would be almost impossible, so I don't think that's a valid get out of license free card.
  • problems 10y ago
    > enforcing it would be almost impossible It'd be about the same as GPL enforcement as is. I don't see any reason this would introduce a special circumstance.