Having talked to a few BSD licence fans most of them like the licence because it allows another group to take their code and close it off. This is exactly what the Kernel and other guys are doing, they are taking the code and putting a GPL header in there, closing it off from the BSD developers.
The only difference here seems to be that because the BSD developers can see the changes and improvements being made they want to include them. Whilst putting the GPL on may be against the spirit of cooperation it se
Having talked to a few BSD licence fans most of them like the licence because it allows another group to take their code and close it off.
Yes. That's because there are situations where it makes sense that somebody should be able to do that. The argument in this case is that this isn't one of them.
That's the problem with your reasoning. You are accusing people who've released code under the BSD of not having considered the cons of the license. In fact, you can be sure that plenty of them were well aware of the cons from day 1, but simply judged the pros to outweigh them. They've chosen to deal with the cons in question here through argument, appeal to ethics and persuasion, rather than by legal action, which would have costs they deem unacceptable.
I don't get it. Why would you provide the right to relicense if you don't actually want that happening? Isn't that what the GPL is for? And what are these pros that BSD licenses have over GPL licenses that outweigh the cons?
Isn't closing them out the point (Score:4, Insightful)
This is exactly what the Kernel and other guys are doing, they are taking the code and putting a GPL header in there, closing it off from the BSD developers.
The only difference here seems to be that because the BSD developers can see the changes and improvements being made they want to include them. Whilst putting the GPL on may be against the spirit of cooperation it se
You're missing the point. (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes. That's because there are situations where it makes sense that somebody should be able to do that. The argument in this case is that this isn't one of them.
That's the problem with your reasoning. You are accusing people who've released code under the BSD of not having considered the cons of the license. In fact, you can be sure that plenty of them were well aware of the cons from day 1, but simply judged the pros to outweigh them. They've chosen to deal with the cons in question here through argument, appeal to ethics and persuasion, rather than by legal action, which would have costs they deem unacceptable.
Now please stop setting up strawmen.
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