• # Commentaire de l'auteur sur la license GPL

    Posté par . En réponse à la dépêche L'alternative BSD. Évalué à 10.

    Ok, les commentaires sur les BSD sont très bien foutu, mais en bas de page, se glisse des petits commentaires sur la license GPL (à la base de linux...), par rapport à la license BSD :

    By contrast, the license used by Linux—the GNU General Public License or GPL—is much more restrictive and comes with many strings attached. For example, if you use any part of the source code from Linux in a program you write, you must give the program away. So being rewarded for your labors is difficult, if not impossible, even if you've made a brilliant technological advance or you've combined only a few lines from Linux with a much larger amount of your own code.

    S'en suit une disgression sur le modèle de la GPL et sur les conséquences de cette close de la license GPL :
    For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
    gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
    you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
    source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
    rights.

    Un troll de + ?

    La license BSD :
    http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html(...)