gnupic: GNU LIB for PIC
Subject:
Re: GNU LIB for PIC
From:
Tom Spindler ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jul 2002 07:55:27 -0000
Message-Id: <20020716074236.GA29888@redback.com>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:43:49PM -0500, Kevin L. Pauba wrote:
> And it particularly annoys me to think Microsoft hijacked the hard work
> of BSD programmers by using the code of the ftp client, supplying it
> with their operating system, and never compensating the project in any
> way.
>
> Every work provided under the BSD license is at risk of this type of
> piracy (in my opinion, Microsoft is the biggest pirate around).
One of the explicit philosophies of the BSD license is that you can
use the code however you want. You're not required to chase down the
author years later, you don't have to worry about license taining
for other code files. You can simply pick up the code and go.
I'd much rather see known conforming-to-standards code out there than
the buggy reimplementation of the month, personally.
