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Permissively licensed software is still free software. The BSD licenses are approved by the FSF as free software licenses. They're simply not copyleft.
by lcouturi 2y ago
Permissively licensed software is still free software. The BSD licenses are approved by the FSF as free software licenses. They're simply not copyleft.
- grotorea 2y agoYes but what I think previous poster meant is that you can't use a permissive license and then blame RMS when you feel used by a corporation using it to make proprietary software. edit: because RMS/FSF's position is not simply "all free software equally good and you should spend your time building some with any license"
- saurik 2y ago(FWIW, I was also trying to add a charitable shift of blame to the article title making the matter more confusing by invoking the term Free Software; but, icouturi's correction of that little quip I added--which was entirely ancillary to my overall argument, as you point out--is, in fact, correct.