Re: gEDA-user: GPL and BSD (was: strange build failure)

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:14:30AM -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Oh no, a GPL vs BSD flame fest.  Must resist responsing... must resist...
> Failed to resist.
> 
> 
> [snip]
> >The uncomfortable truth: the GPL is simply pointless religious bigotry. 
> >Making money is not evil; it's a fact of life. There, I said it. 
> >Somebody had to.
> >
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but nothing in the GPL prevents anyone from 
> making money.  There. I've said it too. :->
> 
> In order to stay somewhat on topic, I will be adding the dist-license= and
> use-license= attributes to the master attribute list.  And at some point I
> will attach both to all the symbols in the library.  dist-licence will be
> GPL and I might consider (not sure I even can) setting use-licence to BSD.
> That was my intent for the symbols anyways.

What's the difference between dist-license and use-license?

Just please make sure the components I already uploaded under GPL are spread
in compliance with GPL.

The advantage of GPL is that it promotes free software. The advantage of BSD is
that it's compatible with many licenses. For example we had problem with Links
and OpenSSL. Debian couldn't distribute Links binary because of a licence
clash. The same is if you want to make a video, download a music under CC-BY-SA
and images from wikipedia under GFDL then you cannot fit it together, even
when CC-BY-SA and GFDL are almost principially the same (just under a different
name).

CL<
> 
> 								-Ales
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