@Mogsie @feld @dtluna @karen
BSD Users are so strict about their license they would never accept something else beside BSD License.
So instead of improving the world and the available tool, they waste their manpower in re-writing/cloning everything from GNU.
So they actually do have a lot of tools that have the same name, but are actually different
@feld @karen @dtluna @Mogsie
Stallman did that because back then, UNIX was not free.
He rewrote/cloned everything to provide an free alternative.
If there is a Free Software, it will not be re-written just to have an GPL variant.
BSD Software can be shared together with GNU Software very easily and all official GNU/Linux Distributions do that.
There are some rare exceptions and those are heavily discussed but those are rather exceptions.
On the other hand, we can't add GPL code into our OS. It's just not possible. We have many many vendors who rely on FreeBSD that cannot have additional GPL code without having to involve lots and lots of lawyers. It's cheaper for them to give us $100k to rewrite GNU blah(1) instead of paying $500k to lawyers for legal review of their next product release.
> but the point still stands that Stallman is the original NIH programmer.
I didn't knew that this was ever a point :P
I also disagreed with GNote back then because for me, it was just Tomboy with Mono.
If it is free, it is free, i don't care about anything else. I dont see the need to rewrite something to make it different free.
If you have to invoke legal council, it's not free. Unless you live in a world where lawyers don't require money for services?
BSD/ISC/MIT code is truly free. You can do anything you want with it. That's the point.
@animeirl @feld @Vamp898 @karen @Mogsie@niu.moe
So #GPL protects #develeopers and #users #freedom to #hack the #code, to improve it, to experiment and spread what they have learnt.
All #developers and all #users, not just the contributors to a specific software.
#MIT and #BSD just protects the contributor to be sued for #bugs in their code.
Now, being a matter of #ethics, the #license does not really matter: the point is the #culture of the project's #leaders.
As #HarveyOS teaches.
Please cease