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Still no new license -- but draft text available

Jeffrey B. Siegal jbs at quiotix.com
Wed Aug 16 22:09:51 EDT 2000 
William Tanksley wrote:
> Pardon, but how could BSD possibly be less generous than GPL?  The GPL
> disallows a lot of distribution methods; the BSD license disallows none.
> 
> Does the GPL allow something that the BSD doesn't?  My reading doesn't
> seem to indicate that...

There is no question that BSD is more "generous" than GPL in terms of each
individual licensee. From the point of vide of an individual licensee GPL
requires a quid pro quo which BSD does not.  However, by creating a cooperative
institution wherein it is assured that code can continue to be exchanged and
shared, using GPL *may* result in a larger--and therefore, in a sense, "more
generous," gift to society as a whole.
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