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Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy
Contrasts BSD and GPL as "free" licenses.
Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy
How is that free? If it is free than shouldn't I be allowed to create (and distribute) GPL code that allows non-GPL products to run on GPL systems?
Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy
GPL is like a fruit with a seed that the animal has to swallow whole. BSD is like a fruit with<sep/>
Slashdot | Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code
Brings up some interesting points about copyright law in the USA and the world.
Slashdot | Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code
Brings up some interesting points about copyright law in the USA and the world.
Slashdot | How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together
Bruce Perens writes "Ari Jaaski of Nokia is concerned that the Linux developers need to learn to live with DRM, SIM-locking, and 'IPR'. But they won't. Fortunately, Nokia can do all that it wants with Linux, while being GPL2 and even GPL3-compatible. The
Slashdot | Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers?
Good comments discuss commercialization of GPLed code, how it's possible and why BSD license isn't necessary if you do your housekeeping.
Slashdot | Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers?
Good comments discuss commercialization of GPLed code, how it's possible and why BSD license isn't necessary if you do your housekeeping.
/. Comment: Re:Ethics? Yes. (#1)
A slashdotter comments on the "coincidence" that, just as a healthy free market drives profits to zero, the GPL also drives profits to zero.
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/. Comment: Re:Ethics? Yes. (#2)
The same slashdotter explains that guaranteed profits are alien to a free market. "The market is efficient because it forces people to work, not because it lets you have a free ride like some Soviet Party Cadre."
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Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright | QuestionCopyright.org
'Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright' is a response to Greg Bulmash's piece where he stated that " You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source". The author thinks there were a number of flaws and mistaken assumptions in Bulmash's reason
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