[wp-hackers] Licensing question

Mike Little wordpress at zed1.com
Tue Jan 19 15:44:24 UTC 2010


2010/1/19 Jordi Canals <jcanals at alkivia.net>

> ...
> And, is it a good idea to use the BSD license? I always wanted to give
> other
> developers as many freedom as possible to use anything I wrote.
>
>
The three clause BSD is not copyleft. It does not explicitly guarantee
user's rights on redistributed versions. See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html

There you have the fundamental difference: BSD is about developers rights,
GPL is about User's rights.


Mike
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