On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:51:28 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
On Saturday 03 Jul 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote:
We cannot say like this. which license has more freedom. If you think a developer who want social work then BSD is best option. Let you develop something and throw to the whole world irrespective of the fact that world is not good as you are. I never get any benefit from huge profit making companies (mostly) so why should I code with a license which permit them to reuse in any manner. The idea of GPL was to create a "*close community*" of hacker and users where we all share our knowledge and software. If anybody want to reuse our software, YES my dear most welcome, join this "close community" and become like us. The GPL was intended to make a "Viral Community". Well I am not opposing those who license their code under BSD but I am commenting on your comment on GPL ('Limited freedom') . Who says you have limited freedom with GPL. There is one Viral Statement in GPL. Which is good.
Ah, long time since we had a BSD vs GPL flamewar!
/me gets the popcorn and sells tickets to the show at the door.
BSD is devilish. In the short term it hooks the crooked. After the smartasses have put their money and got used to the fat life, it pulls the rug. M$ used the bsd tcp stack mangled it and corraled themselves in. 15 years later they are trapped and asphyxiating.
Ofcourse in the short term such things make life difficult for everybody else.
So does BSD offer any advantage to a freesoftware developer. None. Infact you are prevented from using the much larger gpl codebase. Whereas if you are using gpl, nothing stops you from using bsd codebases.
So why screw yourself?