BSD and OSD

[Wes Bethel]

something in this caught my eye:

> First, charging a fee (selling) for software is fine in open source and free
> software. As you know, "Free" means free(dom) from the (real or perceived)
> limitations of copyright, (free speech not "free beer.") As long as the user
> may freely copy and modify the source code, the price of the software does
> not necessarily affect whther the software is open source. Although the BSD
> license does not contain a copyleft provision, that would not mean is not
> properly viewed as open source. The issue is whether the restrictions
> permitted by the license take the software out of the open source movement.
> Since the BSD license does not contain a copyleft, it permits code-forking.
> Consequently, some of those forks could lead to non-free/closed source
> software.
> 

i have the following impression which may or may not be accurate:
Jo Coder has a closed source project which s/he turns into an
Open Source project, using L/GPL (take your pick) as the license.
however, when Jo makes this transition, s/he asserts copyright on
the source.
	 (C) Copyright 2000, Jo Coder
(notice the absence of "All Rights Reserved.") then, in order to 
further prevent forking, Jo files paperwork with the US Copyright
office to assert copyright protection for this project - so that
some big boy doesn't come along and snarf the project, starting
a new project of the same name with the same code.

what am i missing?

tx,
wes
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