For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sat Aug 18 06:48:27 UTC 2007
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Chris Travers (chris at metatrontech.com):
>
>> Why should we hold Microsoft's position against the GPL against it, when
>> we do not hold attacks by RMS against the BSD licenses against them when
>> approving the GPL v3?
>
> Please cite instances of "attacks by RMS against the BSD licenses". One
> URL at which same can be read would suffice.
>
> The only critique by Richard against a BSD licence
Of course, he has lightly criticized non-copyleft licenses in general
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html). But I don't think
this could remotely be considered an *attack*.
Matt Flaschen
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