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The BSD license is developer-centered. It's awesome for developers, mostly avoiding any licensing headache. The GPL is user-centered. It's not designed to be n

by jkn 10y ago

The BSD license is developer-centered. It's awesome for developers, mostly avoiding any licensing headache. The GPL is user-centered. It's not designed to be nice to developers, but to protect the user's freedoms. So to a first approximation I expect that developers that think more of developer's freedoms favor the BSD license, while developers that think more of user freedoms favor the GPL.

daveguy 10y ago
> The GPL is user-centered. It's not designed to be nice to developers, but to protect the user's freedoms. * * Unless those users are developers. I still haven't figured out the distancing and discouraging of LGPL. A lot of software doesn't have much distinction between user and programmer. GPL is one of the worst licenses for a library.