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Old 2nd May 2010
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Originally Posted by Mr-Biscuit View Post
Most of the content on the list has little to do with me. If I need an answer or a suggestion, I'll post my query. In reference to licensing, etc: Yeah, there will be a few answers that are extremely humorous. It's rare, though, that such replies will not have a basis in solid reasoning.

Maybe the reasoning is solid in as far as it goes, in a programming logic sort of way. But taking a dictionary definition of free (and that this definition of free is the one thing that's desirable to optimize?) as your premise and then "proving" how the BSD license is more free because it plainly has fewer restrictions, it's pretty funny to me. The arguments for the BSD license in the FAQ and the ones given on FreeBSD's web site are decent and fairly well explained, but people who think the issue can be reduced to a premise or two and a bit of logic are hard to take seriously. It's embarrassing when otherwise intelligent people argue this way.
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