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Torvalds at LinuxCon Part III: Permissive Licenses and Org Charts

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Christine Hall
Sep 6, 2016

“Some people love the BSD license,” he said. “Some people love proprietary licenses, and do you know what? I understand that. If you want to make a program and you want to feed your kids, it used to make a lot of sense to say that you want to have a proprietary license and sell binaries. I think it makes less sense today, but I really understand the argument. I don’t want to judge, “
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