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BSD was around, but the BSD license was directly inspired by the GPL. Prior to the Net/2 release, and the AT&T lawsuit, running BSD required paying multi-kilobu
by throwaway2048 13y ago
BSD was around, but the BSD license was directly inspired by the GPL. Prior to the Net/2 release, and the AT&T lawsuit, running BSD required paying multi-kilobuck prices for a UNIX source license.
- cperciva 13y agorunning BSD required paying multi-kilobuck prices for a UNIX source license. How is that relevant? Running linux requires paying multi-dollar prices to buy a computer; does that make the software any less free?
- throwaway2048 13y agoJust to be clear, the BSD license did not exist previous to net/2 it was not open source or free software in any meaningful way.
- mpyne 13y agoWell, you can sell GPL'd software today for "multi kilobuck" prices too, if you wish, without affecting how Free the end product is.
- kps 13y ago>the BSD license was directly inspired by the GPL. The BSD license clearly derives from the MIT X license (1985 at the latest) rather than the GPL. Berkeley's code in 4.3-Tahoe (1998) used the BSD license (with slightly different formatting).