[Gllug] Questionnaire - "The motivations of developers who participate in OS projects"

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker ilmari at ilmari.org
Fri Jul 1 14:26:10 UTC 2011


Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On 1 Jul 2011, salsaman at xs4all.nl verbalised:
>> Is there a Free Software license which does not at least guarantee the
>> rights of the LGPL ?
>>
>> I am not sure if I would classify even BSD as Free Software, since
>> somebody can give me a BSD binary and refuse to give me the sourcecode for
>> it.
>
> You are more extreme than the FSF then, assuming it is the BSD license
> without attribution clause you speak of:
> <http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#5>.

More specifically, from the hors^WGNU's mouth:
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware>

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ilmari
"A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is,
 at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

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