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Re: BSD license problem of BiCon was non-issue
- To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: BSD license problem of BiCon was non-issue
- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:46:08 -0400
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> I am definitely biased here, as I happen to like the GPL and relatives.
> Some here do prefer less restrictive licenses, as the FreeBSD guys will
> tell you.
For whatever it means, I want to remind that the reason BSD and
MIT guys came with these licenses, have been that they were
university projects, funded by government, so they had no choice
other than these open licenses.
--behdad
behdad.org