"Some would say that the absence of the GPL is one of the features of BSD".
Some other would say that the absence of the BSD license is one of the feature of Linux.
It depends of what you think about both licenses. I don't like to think that the BSD license allow people to take the software you have written and are just obliged to say "thanks to x for programming this great software that will allow us to make big bucks on it without giving anything back to the community".
The GPL isn't perfect but at least she infect the code so anybody can still make money out of a GPL'd program but he must give something back to the community if he want to improve the program (or to keep the improvment for himself otherwise).
Re:The absence of the GPL (Score:1)
Some other would say that the absence of the BSD license is one of the feature of Linux.
It depends of what you think about both licenses. I don't like to think that the BSD license allow people to take the software you have written and are just obliged to say "thanks to x for programming this great software that will allow us to make big bucks on it without giving anything back to the community".
The GPL isn't perfect but at least she infect the code so anybody can still make money out of a GPL'd program but he must give something back to the community if he want to improve the program (or to keep the improvment for himself otherwise).