iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them

[LuKreme]

On 30-Jun-2007, at 19:30, Chad Leigh wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2007, at 3:20 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>> On 29-Jun-2007, at 23:42, Chad Leigh -- ObjectWerks Inc wrote:
>>> There are real open source licenses out there that work well.  I  
>>> am all for OSS.  I am not for GPL software.  It calls itself  
>>> "free" which is rather bold of them since it is not free in the  
>>> least.  It comes with a whole ton of baggage.
>>
>> To be fair, the only reason there are OSS licenses in existence is  
>> because of the GPL.
>
> Absurd.  There were various other licenses like the BSD license  
> before the GPL existed I think

Yes, the BSD license 'existed'

Of course, BSD was locked up under AT&T at the time, so the fact  
there was a BSD license was largely irrelevant.

Do you really think that we'd have the OSS and OSS licenses we have  
without the GPL?


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