[Fsf-friends] Re: Fwd: Re: [gscp] Goa Syllabus for Linux

[Khuzaima A. Lakdawala]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:33:41 +0530, Mahesh T Pai <paivakil@vsnl.net> wrote:

> This is not the case with several licenses approved by the Open Source
> Initiative, (OSI), like the BSD and MIT licenses.  That is why, BSD
> license is non-free.

You mean non-copyleft. The Modified BSD license is one of the many
non-copyleft GPL compatible free software licenses.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

It gives you all the freedoms that the GPL gives you. But because it
is non-copyleft, it also gives you the freedom to deny the same
freedoms to others.

To call it non-free is non-right :)

-- 
Khuzaima