[Python-Dev] Licensing (original) (raw)

LD 'Gus' Landis ldlandis at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 17:17:50 CEST 2010

Yes. The BSD license on FreeBSD has allowed Apple to make MacOS X a completely proprietary product. The BSD license allows you to take and never release your mods. It has very little to do with money, IMO.

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

Nir Aides <nir at winpdb.org> writes:

I take "...running off with the good stuff and selling it for profit" to mean "creating derivative work and commercializing it as proprietary code" which you can not do with GPL licensed code. It's the “proprietary“ which is the distinguishing criterion there. The “selling” and “commercial” is totally orthogonal to that. That's the point: selling, and commercial activity in general, is explicitly encouraged and permission granted by the GPL. Too many people speak as though it were otherwise. To those who do: Please stop. --  \       “Following fashion and the status quo is easy. Thinking about |  `\        your users' lives and creating something practical is much | o)                                harder.” —Ryan Singer, 2008-07-09 |_ Ben Finney

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