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How would a GPL license have prevented any split between the open source variants of BSD? Why would it have made Theo happy to stay with NetBSD? Also, Linux ha
by kryptiskt 10y ago
How would a GPL license have prevented any split between the open source variants of BSD? Why would it have made Theo happy to stay with NetBSD?
Also, Linux have longstanding forks, the Android kernel and the real-time tree to take two prominent examples.
- tedunangst 10y agoGPL, dude. It solves all the problems.
- na85 10y agoThere seems to be a large(ish?) portion of the free software community that devotes a large amount of its time and energy to handwringing and general agitating about licenses. I really don't get it: Companies are routinely shown to be ignoring GPL and other licensing with zero consequence and your average computer user probably doesn't even understand the concept of a source code license. Does anyone really think that if OpenBSD had some GPL'ed code in there, and $company was taking that code and distributing it closed-source, that there would be any consequences whatsoever? If so, why does this never make the news? If not, then why do these people bother?
- tedunangst 10y agoOne of the reasons I like BSD license as an author, philosophy aside, is there's simply much less policing involved.