Since John Norstad released the code to NewsWatcher under a very permissive (BSD-like) license, it spawned a long list of feature-enhanced derivatives: YA-NewsWatcher, MT-NewsWatcher, WS-NewsWatcher, Value-Added NewsWatcher.
And his use of a permissive BSD-like license instead of something like the GPL is the reason why we now have at least five different versions of NewsWatcher (not including Microsoft Internet Mail and News), instead of just two: the original, and one which incorporates all of the improvements.
It's kind of like this really old sink I saw at summer camp, which had both hot and cold water -- from separate faucets. NewsWatcher perfectly illustrates RMS's point that simply giving away the source is not sufficient to make software free.
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Stop bragging -- I'm getting jealous. :-)
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Since John Norstad released the code to NewsWatcher under a very permissive (BSD-like) license, it spawned a long list of feature-enhanced derivatives: YA-NewsWatcher, MT-NewsWatcher, WS-NewsWatcher, Value-Added NewsWatcher.
And his use of a permissive BSD-like license instead of something like the GPL is the reason why we now have at least five different versions of NewsWatcher (not including Microsoft Internet Mail and News), instead of just two: the original, and one which incorporates all of the improvements.
It's kind of like this really old sink I saw at summer camp, which had both hot and cold water -- from separate faucets. NewsWatcher perfectly illustrates RMS's point that simply giving away the source is not sufficient to make software free.
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