Re: future of quail
/delurk
At 16:36 Uhr +0100 15.02.2011, David Kastrup wrote:
> The whole point of BSD is to allow people to use software
freely,
> whether they want to push a proprietary agenda or an FSF agenda, or
> just want to get on with the job.
You'll find that this is not the normal BSD proponent's opinion. They
are not bothered about proprietary rereleases, but are quite annoyed to
see parts of their software crop up in GPLed software.
... stripped of the respective BSD license, as you failed to add. Because
that's the usual problem in those cases[1].
In fact, the two-clause BSD license was designed precisely to be
interoperable with the GPL.
hauke
[1] See e.g. <http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html>
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