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Linus on Linux, 20 Years In

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 5, 2011 @08:20AM from the stop-being-so-ethical-please dept.

Radium_ writes "Along with the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Linux kernel, Linuxfr — a French-language Linux website — published an interview with Linus Torvalds. [Interview in English.] The creator of Linux answers questions about Linux kernel licensing, his contributions to the kernel development model and Linux in 2031."

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Re:A really interesting quote from Linus by ivucica · 2011-05-05 08:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

BSD license is more free, but does not preserve the freedoms.
Choice of license should depend on your goals. If one of them is philosophy, so be it. If one of them is business, so be it. I always pick the license that I feel best for a project.