[LINK] Fwd: Microsoft learns some tricks from Open Source Software

[Howard Lowndes]

Craig Sanders wrote:
> personally, i prefer the GPL because of that....but the BSD license
> is still a fairly good license. and, unlike Howard, i don't have any
> particular problem with those who do take BSD-licensed software and make
> it proprietary - that is explicitly allowed by the authors. that is why
> they chose the BSD license over the GPL.

I sometimes wonder whether the authors, in the early days, were naively 
unaware of the implications of the BSD licence in its ability to lock 
their donated work into proprietary software.

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