[ILUG-BOM] BSD

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 17/08/06 12:31 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
> The BSD, Apache, MIT, etc. licences work because of a simple model. 
> They allow you to take without giving back, but they ensure that unless 
> you give back, your code will be so far out of sync with HEAD that you 
> spend more money merging the latest changes into your code than you 
> would spend in merging your changes back to HEAD.
> 
Which works on the assumption that people using/deriving BSD code want
to stay in sync with HEAD.

I don't know of too many projects doing this. They usually use the BSD
stuff as a way to get to a running start, but not much beyond that.

Devdas Bhagat