Defining Free Software Business

Alex Hudson home at alexhudson.com
Tue Jun 27 15:47:53 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 18:25 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> >> [...] I always
> >> wondered why we don't strongly object against your licencing policy
> >> while the BSD community had always fiercly opposed the GPL.
> > 
> > "your licencing policy"?  Alex Hudson was not a debian developer
> > last I knew, although I'd more than welcome it.
> 
> There is a misunderstanding.  Alex Hudson wrote: "The BSD community
> also don't think the GPL is 100% free. We'll always have these
> disagreements.", so I thought that he's part of the BSD community.  I
> didn't mean Debian at all (as far as I know, there is no such
> licencing policy in Debian).

No, I'm not part of either the Debian Project or the BSD community :) 

I'm just pointing it out as an example of a divide in the community
which is needless, since both sides have more in common than they have
in difference.

Cheers,

Alex.




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