15 Nov
2002
15 Nov
'02
11:33 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:33:41 +0530, Mahesh T Pai paivakil@vsnl.net wrote:
This is not the case with several licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative, (OSI), like the BSD and MIT licenses. That is why, BSD license is non-free.
You mean non-copyleft. The Modified BSD license is one of the many non-copyleft GPL compatible free software licenses.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
It gives you all the freedoms that the GPL gives you. But because it is non-copyleft, it also gives you the freedom to deny the same freedoms to others.
To call it non-free is non-right :)
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Khuzaima