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GPL Hindering Two-Way Code Sharing?

Posted by kdawson on from the thank-you-and-goodbye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap has some fascinating coverage of the recent rift between the OpenBSD developers and the Linux kernel developers. Proponents of the GPL defend their license for enforcing that their code can always be shared. However in the current debate the GPL is being added to BSD-licensed code, thereby preventing it from being shared back with the original authors of the code. Thus, a share-and-share-alike license is effectively preventing two-way sharing." We discussed an instance of this one-way effect a few days back.

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  1. You are in a maze by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are in a maze with twisty little passages.
    Do you tag this article:
    * noshitsherlock
    * duh
    * wateriswet
    * slownewsday
    * cowboynealsayalloftheabove

    Sigh.

  2. Re:Linux is theft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have to disagree with you on this one, we don't lose our higher moral ground by being accused, we lose it if we actually stole the code to begin with.

    I guess you've lost the moral high ground then. If you ever had it, that is.

  3. BSD is hindering two way sharing. by Alsee · · Score: 2, Funny

    In related news a debate that the BSD is being added to public domain code, thereby preventing it from being shared back with the original authors of the code.

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    - - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
  4. Re:BSD Alternative by muuh-gnu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Write your own one:

    "This code may freely and carelessly be used only for proprietary, closed source applications, and not touched by open source developers. Sharing strictly prohibited."

    This is actually what you meant, right?

    Or just write:

    "WORKING FOR FREE. Employ me, fuck me, do whatever you want with my body, I demand no payment and I hate communists."