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From: | RJack |
Subject: | Re: Significance of the GP licence. |
Date: | Tue, 04 May 2010 16:07:46 -0000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
David Kastrup wrote:
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:In gnu.misc.discuss RJack <user@example.net> wrote:Reason? So do birds. flowers and trees. So what is your point? You are correct (for once). I don't get it. Statements usually have to make sense. What's your rhetorical focus?Quite simply, that it is the GPL itself which is the main reason for the popularity of Linux amongst the people who write it.Well, that's half of the story. Linux has been written to support a preexisting GNU userland. And that userland has a tradition of beingpopular and freely available quite before Linux. And BSD became freely available only some time after GNU/Linux.
You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. "The University of California at Berkeley has a long history of pioneering software development and software distribution models. Having existed in some form since the early 1980s, the BSD licence can claim to be the oldest of the open source licences. In fact its long life has resulted in there being more than one version, and it is slightly misleading to speak of the BSD licence as a result. Although the history of its evolution is an interesting one, for the purposes of this document we will confine ourselves to detailing the last major revision that resulted in what is today called the modified BSD licence or the new BSD licence." http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/modbsd.xml Sincerely, RJack :)
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