DOS ain't dead - GPL vs. BSD

GPL vs. BSD (Developers)

posted by marcov, 20.06.2009, 14:09

> The *BSD camps seem to strongly dislike GPL, and they flat out refuse to
> touch GPL3. Hence, they are scrambling to get away from GCC although that
> isn't too feasible just yet (PCC is weak, Clang sorta works, but only GCC
> supports Obj. C and C++ well enough so far). Honestly, I think we all
> waste our time due to silly politics, marketing, etc. I think if we all
> weren't so petty and argumentative, we'd get more done. But NIH is a
> strong disease, apparently. (I prefer no license at all, honestly, pure
> "public domain", but at the same time, having full sources is definitely
> ideal.)

I don't think this has anything to do with NIH. It's simply that GPL is a very restrictive license rooted in some ideology.

If you don't believe in that ideology to the fullest it is insane to make the requested sacrifice.

Sooner or later you want to use some code for some minor product, and find yourself effectively excluded.

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