[OT] open-source license issues

[spir]

On 04/12/2011 04:18 AM, dsimcha wrote:
> On 4/11/2011 9:55 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Doesn't mysql even have some retarded restriction like "it's GPL but may
>> not be used for commercial purposes so buy mysql if you wanna use it to
>> make money"?
>>
>
> According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql) it's dual licensed
> GPL or proprietary. (Actually it's a slightly modified GPL that's **less**
> restrictive than the vanilla one.)

There is a misconseption (or rather rethorical playing on words) in the 
open-source argumentation versus free software: a license like BSD is said to 
be less restrictive. But in fact it is more privative to (end-)users, in that 
it allows direct users of the software to deprive them from rights that would 
have been guaranted by a free software license.

Denis
-- 
_________________
vita es estrany
spir.wikidot.com