Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage?

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 25 July 2003 14:54, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > That's were Stallman and the GPL come in: The GPL keeps your work
> > available for all. Other licences may be abused.
>
> There is plenty of reason for other licenses, otherwise they would not
> exist.  For example, if I wanted to create an open source application,
> yet also create a feature-enhanced binary only version, a BSD license
> would be a perfect choice for me to select.

Only if you wanted other people to also be able to create and distribute/sell 
feature-enhanced binary-only versions without your explicit permission. If 
you didn't want that the GPL would be perfect for you, because whatever 
license you choose can't constrain you, only others.

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