This is one of the rare occasions where I think Theo is right

Posted Sep 4, 2007 21:35 UTC (Tue) by xtifr (guest, #143)
In reply to: This is one of the rare occasions where I think Theo is right by epa
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

> I think Theo's point is that the spirit of the BSD licence is more important than the letter.

Then how come they don't complain when people release binaries with improvements that will never benefit the BSD community? Frankly, I love BSD (both the license and the system); I grew up in Berkeley and have many friends in the BSD community, but the rabid anti-GPL fanaticism of <em>some</em> members of the BSD community has always set my teeth on edge. I mean, even if you <em>do</em> buy the theory that GPL software is not truly free, how is making source code available for inspection (if nothing else) worse than not doing so?