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Originally Posted by IdOp
there are just so many people interested in open source -- a natural idea that existed outside of GNU anyway. I imagine people would have done things under a wide variety of licenses, just as today, and might even have come up with neighbours of the GPL independently.
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THAT is what bugs me so much about Stallman. He has a very narrow definition of "open source" and decries anyone who doesn't precisely meet his definition. So the BSD license affords MORE freedom to developers (who aren't strictly required to release their improvements...no matter how you cut it, x+|y| is bigger than x...any restriction over "do what the heck you want" is **less freedom**), and yet, it is somewhat "lesser" of a license in Stallman's eyes.
I really don't get his philosophy.