Eric S. Raymond on GPL and BSD licenses. & Microsoft coming to Linux

[Sean Kelly]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
> Seems BSD should be Our Way

If the attribution clause in the BSD license really does cover 
application binaries built containing a BSD-licensed library then it's 
pretty much not an option in most corporate environments.  I've tried to 
get corporate documentation and legal teams to agree with this in the 
past and was unsuccessful, to say the least.

On Don's recommendation I've switched the Druntime license to use the 
Boost license instead of BSD.  It's about as permissive as possible 
without making the code public domain, and doesn't have any of the weird 
problems "public domain" licensed software seems to have both with US 
corporate lawyer paranoia and countries abroad with no legal support for 
"public domain" copyrights.

It's nice to see ESR coming around about the GPL though.  I don't know 
anyone that will go near GPL-licensed source code for exactly the 
reasons he mentions.