Rant on BSD vs GPL was [Good ol' BSD vs. GPL]

[Cathal (Phone)]

I don't think it's unfortunate, I think it's complementary. GPL is valuable for trailblazing and stamping.out new territory because it prevents E3, BSD is valuable because it helps shitty tech companies migrate to standards that aren't total snakeoil. Between the two, the world improves. Obviously I think GPL is better and more important, but that doesn't mean I disparage or undervalue other open work.

On 8 January 2015 09:26:15 GMT+00:00, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 11:33 +0000, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>>> The GPL acknowledges this by forbidding suits within the scope of
>the
>>> work (I think: GPL experts on-list?), preventing E3 from occurring.
>>> Other licenses often take steps in this direction, but the
>>> ultra-short
>>> "friendly and permissive" licenses usually don't
>
>Probably because their model and vision is different, they're
>not really out to modify the world beyond saying "here you
>go, it's free", only out to modify the code, so they've little
>interest in legal longtexts or lawyers.
>
>>> terse and legally unenforceable way that they might as well not be.
>>
>> The GPLv3+ contains this sort of patent protection
>
>Section 10, last paragraph, last part. Don't know if that has been
>tested
>in court as other parts have been in the news. And all of paragraph 11,
>which grants patents.
>
>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
>>> Freedom is not merely defined in law but in experience, and simply
>>> removing explicit limitations on freedom (copyleft licenses) does
>not
>>> mean that the total freedom in the world has increased.
>>
>> BSD advocates, I think, are not interested in total freedom in the
>> world. This is a CONSEQUENCE or OUTCOME of a choice, not the choice
>> itself.
>
>> boils down to consequentialist morals on the GPL side, and
>deontological
>> or rule-based morals on the BSD side.
>
>Yes, depends on definition of freedom. Unfortunately GPL and BSD people
>seem define that differently.

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