[ODE] interesting comment from linus re bsd license

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Jul 8 14:50:02 2003


(delurk)

Anselm Hook wrote:
> Interesting to see this comment for an argument against BSD style
> licensing:

Would it be too much to ask to keep license flamewars off the list?

The author(s) have chosen a license model that they are comfortable with
and which (IMO) allows a good range of free and proprietary uses of the
code.

Note also that any fork which did not desire to rejoin the trunk would
need to explicitly remove the GPL from its distribution terms. If one is
concerned about one's contributions not being freely available, then one
should not contribute to such projects.

-d