On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 04:16:51PM -0700, Miles Nordin wrote:
: 
: This is crufty and complicated, but would produce a considerable social
: good.  Does anyone know to what extent BSD developers have opened a
: dialogue with the FSF, regarding whether or not this
: minimum-useful-adjustment fits with their idealogy?  They are in a much
: better position to change their license than we are.

I think the reasoning probably falls under the ideological constraints
of the FSF.  There's no point in co-habitating with BSD code, since the
BSD license carries the stigma of not requiring source redistribution.

As usual:

    BSD: "do what you like with our code how you like,
          just give us some credit since you used our stuff"

    GPL: "I am RMS of FSF, your patches and code enhancements
          will be assimilated into this copylefted source.
          Resistence is futile..."

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 302.593.4322               ||  matter of life or death...
email: darkstar@udel.edu          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!