“If you haven’t been living under a rock the past decade (I
suppose Stonehenge qualifies) you may have walked in on some
incarnation of the famous GPL vs BSD flamewar.
It’s up there with the most famous flamewars
(now *there’s* a research question for a
brimming sociology student!) of our beloved Internet society.“Both licensing models have been around for a very long time. I
don’t know which predates which, but it really
doesn’t matter. The spirit behind both licenses
is very similar: free software is good. But they realize this idea
in different ways…”
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