[OT] open-source license issues

[spir]

On 04/12/2011 08:19 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> spir wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 	OTOH, the GPL is a lot more restrictive for direct users since it
> deprives them of the right to license *their own* code any way they
> want (at least, LGPL does not have that restriction).
>
> 		Jerome

True.

Denis
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