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variants of the GPLvariants of the GPLPosted Jul 6, 2007 0:41 UTC (Fri) by lysse (guest, #3190)In reply to: variants of the GPL by zooko Parent article: GPLv3 is out
> the GPL imposes restrictions in order to cause a broader proliferation of permissions.
No, it doesn't. Under basic copyright law, redistribution is not permitted at all. Period. That's about as restricted as it's possible to get! Therefore the GPL doesn't *impose* restrictions, it *relaxes* them.
So does the BSD, or placing a work in the public domain. The difference is that the BSD relaxes the restrictions of copyright law almost unconditionally, whereas the GPL only relaxes them conditionally - the condition being that none of the restrictions it relaxes may be reimposed.
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