On Thursday 12 June 2008 12:35:26 Brian K. White wrote:
Some rules limit freedom, but some rules _provide_ it. The ways in which the gpl are more limiting than bsd are ridiculously outweighed by the body of public works they produce. It merely requires being able to see beyond the end of your nose to see it. I would say that anyone who doesn't see that is someone who never learned that valuing instant gratification above all else is stupid, and so their opinion is of no concern.
I think it's more important to note that the people that own the copyrights on the code DO NOT want it combined with code that doesn't let them maintain ownership. In the case of Sun's CDDL, they require you to sign everything you do over to them, that's fair? No. It's not the evil GPL, it's Sun trying to accomplish proprietary open source, that isn't right. As for BSD, I don't think most in this day and age really want to hand over their hard work so others can benefit without giving anything back, that is why BSD license will never catch on, but it's certainly a much better license than anything Sun, Apple, or Microsoft have come up with. It's a joke that people even make such arguments STILL. Don't like the terms the programmers choose for your usage, feel free to write it yourself. In the case of ZFS, I'm pretty sure FUSE is LGPL, so you have choices. The authors of the code have a right to have copyrights on their work, they put a lot of time and energy into writing that code. The only people that complain are those that have never written any worthwhile program. It's illegal to use GPL software at all if you do not fulfill the terms of the license, so maybe those that don't like it should move on to something else? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org