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Personally am asking myself what the benefits of the BSD clause compared to a more restrictive license are. The only reason I personally can see is that they wa
by mnmalst 2y ago
Personally am asking myself what the benefits of the BSD clause compared to a more restrictive license are. The only reason I personally can see is that they want to have to option to close the browser themself in the future.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoBelieve it or not, plenty of people prefer permissive licenses because they grant more freedom. Not everyone agrees with the GPL.
- bayindirh 2y agoIf you want ultimate freedom, just put it to public domain at the beginning.
- apantel 2y agoYup. All licensing is about brokering control. The only license that grants true freedom is no license, i.e. public domain. Everything else is a “where’s the control” shell game.
- shiomiru 2y ago(obligatory IANAL) Sadly, that's not how it works; opting out of the copyright game is a lot harder than it should be. "No license" means all rights reserved, and even a public domain dedication is invalid in certain countries. Your best bet is to put your code in the PD and provide a fallback maximally permissive license in countries with insane legislation where that doesn't work (e.g. Germany). The Unlicense notably does this, though lawyers seem to hate it for various reasons. Alternatively, you can use licenses like 0BSD/MIT-0 which are PD-equivalent, but you technically retain copyright, so it should work in aforementioned countries too.
- zzo38computer 2y agoOne advantage of BSD license being not as complicated as GPL.