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Old 6th June 2014
bsd-keith bsd-keith is offline
Real Name: Keith
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The main differences between BSD & GNU licencing to me is that BSD is totally free of any uneccessary impediments on its use, it just basically states 'don't say you wrote it'.

Whereas, under GNU licencing you are obliged to provide the source code when asked to do so, (you used to have to supply it alongside your program at one time).

I believe in FREE software for the masses, to do the normal regular things that people do.

However if someone wants to create a specialist program, I believe they should be able to licence it as they see fit, as long as they are not using someone elses work in it that has been licenced differently or not for commercial use. That is where the GNU licence seems to annoy some people.

Edit: I very much appreciate all programmers who give to the community so freely, no matter what licence they put it under.
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