Still no new license -- but draft text available

[Eric S. Johansson]

wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net (William Tanksley) writes:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:41:21 -0600, John W. Stevens wrote:
> >I've thought about taking projects released under the BSD license,
> >cloning them, then releasing them under the more generous GPL license. 
> >Such is life . . .
> 
> Pardon, but how could BSD possibly be less generous than GPL?  The GPL
> disallows a lot of distribution methods; the BSD license disallows none.

Another way of looking at it is in terms of compensation.  The GPL
compensates you for your effort by making sure all future revisions
are available to everyone.

The BSD license gives people the freedom to taker work without
compensation to you for your effort.

keeping all future revisions available to everyone fits my definition
of more generous.

--- eric