Re: Wasting our Freedom

Adrian Bunk
2007-09-17T19:44:25Z

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:09:08PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:32:35 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > Your licence puts you in the position that you always depend on the
> > goodwill of the persons from whom you want to get code back.
>
> The BSD license promotes goodwill.
>
> The GPL license promotes and enforces viral control. How hypocritical that the Linux community fights so hard against the "evils" of corporate greed, while it has no qualms about accepting their NDAs, binary blobs, and non-redistributable drivers. It will bend over backwards for closed-source vendors, but won't extend the olive branch to Free Software brethren.

Your accusation the Linux community had no problems with "binary blobs
and non-redistributable drivers" is quite far away from the truth.

> Jason Dixon

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Adrian

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