OT - Closing Off An Open-Source Product

[Dave LeBlanc]

I'd sure like to know what some of this minorly modified and tainted
code is!

I'm aware that Flex was stolen by the FSF, although the author might
bear some responsibility in that case. Flex was covered by an
agreement reached between the Justice Dept. and the University of
California since much of the work was done under government contract,
at a time when such work was public property.  This is actually where
the Berkely license originated.

Of course, these days, you get the gov't to pay for the work and then
you get the benefit...

Dave LeBlanc

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:18:49 -0500 (CDT), Chris Watson
<chris at voodooland.net> wrote:

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>> what if "hackers" working for a big GPL guy takes your non-GPL'd open
>> source code, makes a usually trivial change, and instead of contributing
>> the change back to the original author, they redistribute the result as
>> their own code, under GPL?
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>It happens with the BSDL. Of course it's ALLOWED by the GPL. The BSDL is
>FREE CODE. Thats the whole point. What good is writing free code if you
>dont allow people to use it as much as possible and in as many way's as
>you can? It's not free code if they can't use it for whatever purpose.
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>> has happened to me many times...
>> (and for some reason, non-GPL folks never do things like that.  go figure)
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>Because the License is not free, and unrestricted. It's an embrace and
>extend tactic. They take free code and GPL it, killing its free nature.
>But I have started adding a new clause to my BSDL code now killing their
>ability to do that.
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