Total freedom without coercion is anarchy.Sebastien Carlier wrote:
The BSD License defines obeying copyright law, complying with the
license and crediting the
original authors as acceptable restrictions on one's freedoms.
Failing to preserve a copyright/license/credit is a BSD example of a
"Bad Freedom"
The only distinction between a BSD License and the GPL is the
author's view of
which freedoms are good and which are bad.
If you are really claiming that BSD Licenses offer "total freedom",
make's no distinctions between the values of different freedoms,
and is completely non-coercive then why are BSD developers upset over
The Atheros HAL ?
The anger is because more freedom has been taken than your license
offered.
You can not have total freedom absent coercion, and copyright's and
licenses.
They are incompatible.
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Dave Lynch DLA Systems
Software Development: Embedded Linux
717.627.3770 dhlii@dlasys.net http://www.dlasys.net
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Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein
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