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> In BSD and similar you easily can. Nope. My taking BSD code and producing a proprietary, closed source product it in no way impacts someone else's freedom to
by insaneirish 12y ago
> In BSD and similar you easily can.
Nope. My taking BSD code and producing a proprietary, closed source product it in no way impacts someone else's freedom to do the same, nor does it remove some freedom they previously had.
- rogerbinns 12y agoThe freedoms on the original are indeed unchanged in both cases. The freedom on the derived work is what can be taken away with non-GPL.
- DasIch 12y agoThere was never any freedom on the derived work to begin with, so no freedom can be taken away. Especially considering that in practice people don't just take a look at a project they might derive a project from, see the GPL license and go "Huh, I guess I have to use GPL then". The GPL nerd imagination in play here is as the ridiculous as the imagination of crypto nerds[1]. [1]: http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/