[ILUG-BOM] BSD

[lawgon at antispam]

Quoting Devdas Bhagat <devdas at dvb.homelinux.org>: 
 
> 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. 
 
again postgresql, django, zope, lighttpd, apache?, subversion?